Viticulture Essential Edition (EN)

Grow a small vineyard into a productive winery in Viticulture Essential Edition. This worker-placement game follows the seasons of wine making, asking you to choose when to plant, harvest, produce and welcome visitors.

Place workers on available actions during summer and winter. Build structures, improve your vines, fill wine orders and make use of visitor cards that can shift a plan in a useful direction. The actions you take early in the year affect what you can accomplish once the next season arrives.

Workers are limited, and the most attractive spaces may fill before you reach them. You can train additional help and improve your winery, but those investments compete with the immediate work needed to generate points. Finding a rhythm between preparing future production and delivering valuable orders is the heart of the game.

Viticulture suits players who enjoy developing an engine within a welcoming theme. There are several viable ways to turn your vineyard into a successful estate, and the visitor cards give each session different opportunities. It rewards attention to timing as much as choosing which wines to produce.

• Players: 1–6
• Age Range: 13+
• Typical game: 45–90 minutes
• Difficulty rating: 🧠🧠🧠 (3/5)