Viticulture: Essential Edition

Viticulture is a worker-placement strategy game that allows players to create their own Tuscan vineyard anywhere a table and a friend can be found.

You find yourself in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany where you’ve inherited a meager vineyard. You own a few plots of land, an old crush pad, a tiny cellar, 3 workers … and the dream of owning the best winery in Italy.

Your job is to allocate your workers and helpful visitors to complete various tasks throughout year. Each seaon is different on a vineyard, so the workers have different tasks they can take care of in the summer and winter. There’s competition over those tasks, and often the first worker to arrive at each one has an advantage over the rest.

Using those workers and visitors, you can expand your vineyard by building structures, planting vines, and filling wine orders as you work towards the goal of owning the most successful winery in Tuscany.

Components

• 118 cards
• 42 vine cards (green deck)
• 36 wine order cards (purple deck)
• 18 field cards
• 24 automa cards
• 36 mama & papa cards
• 38 summer visitor cards (yellow deck)
• 38 winter visitor cards (blue deck)
• 1 game board
• 6 vineyard mats
• 30 worker meeples (6 different colors)
• 6 grande worker meeples
• 50 glass tokens (grapes & vine)
• 6 wake-up tokens (roosters)
• 6 victory point tokens (corks)
• 6 residual payment tracker tokens (wine bottles)
• 48 wooden structure tokens (8 unique tokens for each color)
• 72 punch board lira (52 bronze £1, 12 silver £2, 8 gold £5)
• 1 first player token (grapes)
• 1 rulebook & quick-reference guide