Comments on: Viticulture: Essential Edition Review

By: Amybug42

Amybug42 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:23:16 +0000

Made even more delightful when you have mini-wines to sip when you produce that variety!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:56:12 +0000

I know a lot of people get hung up on the card draw (wine orders in particular) but I always felt it was just an aspect of the game to manage like anything else.

By: Rob C

Rob C — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 23:04:14 +0000

The Visit from the Rhine Valley mini expansion is a great addition to the game for me. Whereas before it was possible to win the game through the use of visitor cards to earn victory points (thematically feeling like your winery is more tourist attraction than wine producing), these cards focus on building your wine making engine only. It’s far more thematically pleasing in my opinion and ultimately more satisfying when you win.

By: Marc Davis

Marc Davis — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 20:36:36 +0000

In reply to cliosboardgames. It's hard not to feel that way when playing the game. The combination of the game design and Beth Sobel's art is perfect.

By: cliosboardgames

cliosboardgames — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 20:32:55 +0000

This game is definitely like a fine wine – you can be very cerebral and analytical about it, and you can just enjoy it. For all my usual competitiveness, when I play Viticulture, I just lay back and relax while I build my winery. I think it’s because I grew up in a wine-making town, so this game has a very homey feel to me.

By: Tuscany: Essential Edition Review - The Thoughtful Gamer

Tuscany: Essential Edition Review - The Thoughtful Gamer — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 21:57:28 +0000

[…] Viticulture: Essential Edition is one of my favorite worker placement games of all time. Not only is it beautiful, but it’s easy to learn, sleek, and elegantly thematic. The expansion, called Tuscany: Essential Edition (based on the original expansion, merely called Tuscany, which contained content that will never be printed again, content in the expansion, and content in Viticulture: EE proper. It makes sense but it’s too complicated to spend time thinking about) blows the game wide open and creates a completely new, yet familiar, experience. […]