Stonemaier Games Viticulture Essential Edition Board Game, for 156 months to 9600 months

Most board games don’t downsize nicely for two. This one sings. My wife loves the wine production theme. She says it makes the game play easy to understand. It’s a great game.

Viticulture is everything a great worker-placement game should be- a perfect mix of chance, strategy and tactics. We have played 2 - 5 people and the play has always been challenging. I have yet to beat my wife (grrr) and have enjoyed every game!

Amazing game!!

This became a family favorite immediately. Very fun but also laid back, easy to learn, and allows strategizing for those interested.

Viticulture is a clever worker placement game that tasks players with managing their own vinyard to make and sell wine. If youre unfamiliar with worker placement games, the main mechanic involves placing your meeples (in this case vineyard workers) at various locations on the game board that give you different abilities, from gaining new grapevines to bottling and selling your wine to receiving guests. However, space at each location is limited, so you must shrewdly prioritize the actions you want to perform lest your opponents take up the spots before you. Im a big fan of worker placement games, and Viticulture didnt disappoint, in large part due to its well-implemented and wholly unique theme.

A beautiful game and the kind of quality you expect from Stonemaier Games.

Not sure how that would happen and probably not enough to make me return it but my copy of Viticulture Essential Edition didnt have a double sided board and player mats as listed on the rulebook.

My favorite game. 9/10. Add the Tuscany expansion and it is a 10/10.

If you like Catan, Stone Age and similar type games youll enjoy Viticulture. Fun and easy to learn.

I saw this game on Board game Arena... I liked it so much I bought a copy. Fun game with great mechanics. One of my favorites, and it supports up to 6 players. A four player game takes about an hour.