Tabletop games
Viticulture
MatagotJamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone2013
- players
- 1–6
- minutes
- 90
- years
- 13+
In the box
1 board · Vineyard boards · Vine, Wine Order and Visitor cards · Wooden workers and big workers · Wooden buildings · Grape and Wine tokens · Lire
Official rules (publisher's site)
Box details
- Designers
- Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone
- Artwork
- Jacqui Davis, David Montgomery, Beth Sobel
- Publisher
- Matagot
- Mechanics
- Worker PlacementHand ManagementObjectivesIncomeSolo Play
- Expansions
- Viticulture: Tuscany · 2016
- Viticulture: Moor Visitors Expansion · 2016
- Viticulture: Rhine Visitors · 2018
Where to buy it
Near you and online
In a shop
Within 50 km.
Online
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The basics
Each player makes their vineyard thrive. Each year has four seasons: in spring, choose your spot on the wake-up chart; in summer and winter, place your workers on actions to plant vines, harvest, make wine and fill wine orders, which score points; at the end of the year, wines age and you collect your income. The game ends at the end of the year in which a player reaches 20 points, and the most points wins.
The rules, step by step
Setup
1 vineyard board, 1 grande worker, Score at 0
- Each player gets a vineyard board, their workers including the grande worker, and their structures to build.
- The score markers start at 0.
How to play
4 seasons per year, Wake-up chart, Summer, winter workers
- A year has four seasons.
- In spring, choose your spot on the wake-up chart, which sets the turn order and gives a small bonus.
- In summer and winter, place your workers on actions; the grande worker can take a space that is already occupied.
- In autumn, each player draws a summer or winter Visitor card.
- The actions let you plant vines, harvest, make wine and fill wine orders.
- At the end of the year, wines and grapes age and everyone collects their income.
Scoring
Wine orders, Visitors and structures, Track down to −5
- Wine orders score points and raise the income at the end of each year.
- Visitors, actions and some structures also score points.
- The score track goes down to -5.
End of the game
20 points reached, End of the year, Tie: lira
- The game ends at the end of the year in which a player reaches 20 points.
- Tie: most lira, then the highest total value of wine in the cellar.
Going further
Frequently asked questions · In the same family
Frequently asked questions
Does the game stop as soon as someone reaches 20 points?
No: finish the current year, and the highest total at that point wins.