Afterwork Session: Viticulture (Essential Edition)

Designers: Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone, Morten Monrad Pedersen

Join me at the table for a game of Viticulture (Essential Edition), a worker-placement strategy about making wine! In pre-modern, rustic Tuscany, you'll take on the role of someone who's inherited a meagre vineyard and very little resources, and who hopes to make their dream of becoming an acclaimed winemaker come true.

Over the course of several years, each divided in 4 seasons, you'll decide how and when to allocate your workers and what tasks to give them, attract visitors and collect resources - all with the aim of improving and expanding your vineyard, making wine, and fulfilling orders. The game end is triggered once a player reaches 20 points, then the round is finished and we calculate final scoring.

The Essential Edition of the game is a reworked version which includes some of the most popular modules from the Tuscany expansion such as Mamas & Papas, Fields, and reworked Visitor cards.

I will be doing a full rules teach before we start, so no experience or knowledge of the game is needed or expected. However, if you're interested in checking out the rules for yourself, I've included links to the game's BGG page as well as to a rules teach. See you there!

BGG page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/183394

Rules teach video: https://youtu.be/L5fcDctkFFE?is=YhSG5Wdl27FQjx

(This video teaches the original edition of Viticulture so some elements mentioned above won't be covered, but it should still give you a good idea of how the game plays.)