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title: "Viticulture: Essential Ed"
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# Worker placement vineyard strategy Beautifully illustrated design Solo Automa AI opponent Viticulture: Essential Ed

**Brand:** stonemaier games
**Price:** $U9654
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🍷 Cultivate your legacy—build the ultimate Tuscan winery before your rivals do!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Viticulture: Essential Ed by stonemaier games
- **How much does it cost?** $U9654 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Key Features

- • **Immerse in Thematic Wine-Making:** Use irrigation, trellises, and visitor cards to authentically simulate the evolving value of your wine.
- • **Complete & Refined Essential Edition:** Includes base game plus mini expansions and updated rules for a polished, satisfying gameplay.
- • **Master the Art of Vineyard Management:** Strategically assign workers each season to optimize grape growing, wine production, and expansion.
- • **Challenge Yourself Solo or With Friends:** Engage with the innovative Automa system for a competitive single-player experience or enjoy up to 6 players.
- • **Aesthetic Excellence Meets Deep Strategy:** Stunning artwork by top illustrators combined with accessible yet rich mechanics for millennial pros.

## Overview

Viticulture: Essential Edition is a beautifully illustrated, strategic worker placement board game where 1-6 players manage a Tuscan vineyard. Featuring seasonal tasks, visitor cards, and an Automa for solo play, it offers a refined, thematic experience with expanded content and polished rules, perfect for millennial professionals seeking a sophisticated yet accessible gaming challenge.

## Description

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Review: Fantastic Rulebook. Terms explained on back cover.These points are often overlooked but very important. Also: Art work beautiful. Solid game, scales well w/player count. You need to plan ahead and it really is a decent game, the best in years. This edition is the best, and it is finally a worker placement game that I actually like. I played the tuscany + essential and did not like that very much. It feels "finished", instead of others that feel incomplete and are shouting for expansions. Compared to other wine board games it is simpler than Vinhos and less cruel than grand cru. It actually teaches how wine is produced. For kids however it is not very spectacular, would play it with intelligent adults, that may or may not like wine. Oh and did I mention you can play it solo against the AI of the game?
Review: Lovely production, good worker placement mechanics and very accesible. Highly recommended for medium-lightweight game.

## Features

- BUILD YOUR VINEYARD: Create the most prosperous winery in Italy from the Tuscan vineyard you’ve inherited in this worker placement wine-making game
- ASSIGN TASKS TO YOUR WORKERS: Every season 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 get to the job has an advantage over subsequent workers.
- GOALS: Using those workers and visitors, the vineyard owners can expand their vineyards by building structures, planting vines, and filling wine orders, working towards the goal of running the most successful winery in Tuscany.
- HIGHLY VARIABLE: Visitors are willing to help out around the vineyard when they visit as long as you assign a worker to take care of them. Their visits (in the form of cards) are brief but can be very helpful.
- BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED AND ILLUSTRATED: Designed by Jamey Stegmaier (Scythe) and Alan Stone (Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia). Illustrated by Jacqui Davis (Cubitos), David Montgomery, and Beth Sobel (Wingspan).
- ESSENTIAL EDITION: Includes the base game of Viticulture along with a few mini expansions like Mamas & Papas, Fields, expanded and revised Visitors, Automa cards, and a few minor rule changes from the original version.
- THEMATICALLY DESIGNED MECHANISMS: As each year turns, your wine gains value as it ages. Use irrigation and trellises to plant grapes in your fields, and turn those grapes into wine.
- SOLO PLAY: Features an Automa to play against in a single player game for a fun solitaire experience. The Automa simulates an opponent for you to compete against, while your game as a player remains the same. On the Automa’s turn, flip a card to see what action it takes.
- GIFTS: This is a great gift for the board game lover in your life. Fun for adults, couples, board gamers, and wine lovers.
- PUBLISHED BY STONEMAIER: Stonemaier is a tabletop game publisher based in St. Louis and distributed worldwide. Stonemaier's brands include Viticulture, Euphoria, Between Two Cities, Scythe, Charterstone, My Little Scythe, Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Wingspan, Tapestry, Pendulum, Red Rising, Rolling Realms, Libertalia, Smitten, Expeditions, Apiary, and Wyrmspan.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B018GRSLK4 |
| Assembly Required | No |
| Batteries Included? | No |
| Batteries Required? | No |
| Best Sellers Rank | #21,469 in Toys ( See Top 100 in Toys ) #719 in Board Games |
| Color | Multi-colored |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (2,200) |
| Date First Available | 12 November 2015 |
| Educational Objective(s) | Team Building Skills |
| Item model number | STM105 |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer recommended age | 14 years and up |
| Material Type(s) | Cardboard Cardstock Wood |
| Number of Game Players | 1-6 |
| Product Dimensions | 22 x 9.98 x 27 cm; 1.81 kg |
| Release date | 10 September 2016 |
| Remote Control Included? | No |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Stonemaier Games
- **Genre:** ['Strategy', 'City Building', 'Engine Building']
- **Material:** Cardboard Cardstock Wood
- **Number of players:** 1-6
- **Theme:** Winemaking

## Images

![Viticulture: Essential Ed - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71oyi4jIh9L.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Is there a one player option?**
A: As has been answered, there absolutely is a one-player variant, and I just wanted to add my piece to this: it is one of the best solo-variants I've ever seen in a game. The designer of the variant is on Board Game Geek and it went through some amazing playtesting - the variant is so simple, yet it seems like it knows what we're thinking or wanting to do. It's got a few levels of difficulty as well, and the solo variant has been lovingly designed and honed by many many fans of Viticulture. I cannot  recommend this game highly enough. One caveat - if you do purchase it, I would recommend purchasing a set of metal coins - I did not get the ones done by Stonemaier, but they are available at Meeplesource. I bought mine on Amazon and they were made for the game Brass (by Eagle Gryphon). Totally completely adds to the fun of this game!

**Q: What types of tokens are needed for this game? ie. gold, stone, food, gems, wood etc? Would the Stonemaier token be useful or a waste?**
A: Here’s what we do. We buy little jewelry gems at HobbyLobby….we buy Ruby red for the red wine, white for the whites, there’s a blush color , and then we buy a sparkly one for the champagne. We use a clear disc for the money marker. We use miniature wine bottles for the player scores. We also use silicon cupcake liners to hold game pieces. We use the cupcake liners for all sorts of games. Blings it all out at a reasonable price. We also used balsa wood to make crates for the cards. This is a frequent game at our house., so worth the effort. Great game for newer players. A bit light for my tastes, but we are gamers.

**Q: Does this version come with the metal coins?**
A: No, this version comes with cardboard coins. The Tuscany Deluxe expansion is the one that comes with the metal coins.

**Q: Is this compatible with Tuscany Expansion (2nd Edition)?**
A: Yes, 2nd ed Tuscany (AKA Tuscany essential edition) was created to work best with viticulture essential ed

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by K***X on 21 May 2017*

Fantastic Rulebook. Terms explained on back cover.These points are often overlooked but very important. Also: Art work beautiful. Solid game, scales well w/player count. You need to plan ahead and it really is a decent game, the best in years. This edition is the best, and it is finally a worker placement game that I actually like. I played the tuscany + essential and did not like that very much. It feels "finished", instead of others that feel incomplete and are shouting for expansions. Compared to other wine board games it is simpler than Vinhos and less cruel than grand cru. It actually teaches how wine is produced. For kids however it is not very spectacular, would play it with intelligent adults, that may or may not like wine. Oh and did I mention you can play it solo against the AI of the game?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by R***D on 16 October 2025*

Lovely production, good worker placement mechanics and very accesible. Highly recommended for medium-lightweight game.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by A***! on 15 September 2024*

Love the game^^

## Frequently Bought Together

- Stonemaier Games: Viticulture Essential Edition (Base Game) | Create The Most Prosperous Tuscan Vineyard | Wine Themed Strategy Board Game for Adults and Family | 1-6 Players, 90 Mins, Ages 14+
- Stonemaier Games Viticulture: Tuscany Expansion Essential Edition, 1-6 Players, Ages 14+, 150 Mins, New Board, Cards, Workers

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