Viticulture: Essential Edition

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Player Aid Author: Jarrod Moore

Description

Create the most prosperous winery in Italy from the Tuscan vineyard you've inherited.

Expansions in Use

  • Tuscany: Essential Edition

  • Place the board on the side with the structures expansion:
    • If you choose to use the other side, ignore all instructions abount structures
  • Shuffle and place the 5 decks of cards
  • Place the grapes first-player token on its printed space in row 7 of the wake-up chart
  • Place the grey extra work on its printed space in row 7 of the wake-up chart
  • Randomly select a first player
  • In clockwise order, starting with the first player:
    • Place your rooster token on the desired space in the spring column of the wake-up chart
    • You cannot choose row one:
      • To wake up in row one, you must have chosen row 7 in the previous round
  • Prepare the special workers:
    • Shuffle the special workers deck and randomly select two cards:
      • 2P: Remove the innkeeper card from the deck before shuffling

  • Each player receives:
    • 1 player mat
    • 1 structure mat
    • 3 field cards of different values:
      • 5 lira, placed on the left field
      • 6 lira, placed on the centre field
      • 7 lira, placed on the right field
    • 1 mama card and 1 papa card

Receive the benefits on the mama and papa cards you received

The game plays over a series of rounds, where each round represents a calendar year.

Each year has 4 phases, one for each of the seasons:

  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Fall
  • Winter

During your turn, you will be able to do one of the following things:

  • Place a worker on a space in the current season on the main board
  • Place a worker on a space on your player board
  • Place a worker on a space on a structure you have built (if available)
  • Pass

Players will continue to take turns in wake-up chart order until all players have passed, after which play moves to the next season. Passing in winter will allow you to choose your starting position in the next year

The spaces that are available to use in each action depends on player count:

  • 1-2P: Only the left space
  • 3-4P: Only the left and middle space
  • 5-6P: All 3 spaces can be used

In this season, you receive no special benefits based on starting order.

Bonuses:

  • Left space: Draw an additional vine card
  • Middle space: None
  • Right space: None
  • Draw a vine card into your hand

Bonuses:

  • Left space: None
  • Middle space: Gain 1 lira
  • Right space: None
  • Receive 2 lira:
    • If you have built the tasting room, and you have at least one wine token in your cellar, gain 1 victory point:
      • You can only receive a victory point from giving a tour in this way once per year

Bonuses:

  • Left space: None
  • Middle space: Gain 1 lira
  • Right space: None
  • Choose either a structure on your player board or a structure in your hand
  • Pay the cost of the structure
  • Place the structure on your board
  • If it is a structure card, receive the number of victory points written on the bottom of the card after placing it
  • You may remove a placed structure card to make room for a new one if you want

Bonuses:

  • Left space: None
  • Middle space: Place or move one more influence token
  • Right space: None

To place an influence token:

  • Note: You cannot do this after you have placed all 6 tokens on the map
  • Take an unplaced token from your supply
  • Place it in one of the regions on the influence map
  • Gain the printed benefit

To move an influence token:

  • Take one of your markers you have already placed
  • Move it into the new region
  • You do not receive the benefit when doing this

Wake-up chart bonuses for this season:

Row PositionBonus1None2Gain 1 lira3Draw 1 vine card4Draw 1 wine order card5Draw 1 summer or winter visitor card6Gain 1 victory point7Gain the extra worker for this year

Bonuses:

  • Left space: Gain 1 lira
  • Middle space: Play an additional summer visitor card
  • Right space: None
  • Play a summer visitor card from your hand and follow its instructions
  • Discard the card

Bonuses:

  • Left space: Plant a second vine card
  • Middle space: None
  • Right space: None
  • Choose the vine to be planted
  • Place the vine card on the field you wish to plant it in
  • The total value of grapes on each field cannot exceed the field's value
  • You cannot plant a vine on a field that has been sold

Bonuses:

  • Left space: None
  • Middle space: Trade one for one a second time
  • Right space: None
  • Exchange any two of the following things for each other:
    • Any two cards
    • 3 lira
    • 1 victory point
    • 1 grape token
  • If you receive a grape token, it must be a 1-value grape token
  • If you sell a grape token, it can be of any value
  • You can trade a red grape token for a 1-value white token and vice versa
  • You can discard 2 cards and draw any 2 cards with this action

Bonuses:

  • Left space: Gain 1 victory point
  • Middle space: Draw 1 structure card
  • Right space: None

To sell a field:

  • Receive the amount of lira printed on the field card
  • Flip it over to its sold side
  • You cannot sell a field that has vine cards on it To buy a field back:
  • Pay the amount of lira printed on the field card
  • Flip it back face-up

If you have built the cottage:

  • Draw either 1 summer visitor card or 1 winter visitor card

Wake-up chart bonuses for this season:

Row PositionBonus1None2None3Draw 1 summer visitor card4Draw 1 summer visitor card5Draw 1 winter visitor card6Draw 1 winter visitor card7Draw 1 card of any type
  • name: Draw a Wine Order Card text: | Bonuses: * Left space: Draw an additional wine order card * Middle space: None * Right space: None
    * Draw a wine order card into your hand
  • name: Harvest One Field text: | Bonuses: * Left space: Harvest two fields (instead of one) * Middle space: Gain 1 lira * Right space: None
    • Choose a field to harvest
    • Add up the value of red grapes and white grapes
    • Place 1 token on your crush pad for each colour of grapes:
      • If the space for the value of the sum is taken, place the token on the next lowest available space
    • Each field can only be harvested once a year
  • name: Make up to Two Wine Tokens text: | Bonuses: * Left space: Make up to three wine tokens (instead of two) * Middle space: None * Right space: None
    For each wine token you make: * Choose the type of wine token you want to make * Remove the following tokens from the crush pad depending on the type to be made: * White wine token: 1 white grape token * Red wine token: 1 red grape token * Blush wine token (requires Medium Cellar): 1 red grape token and 1 wine grape token * Sparkling wine token (requires Large Cellar): 2 red grape tokens and 1 wine grape token * Place one wine token on the corresponding wine track equal to the sum of values of the removed tokens

Bonuses:

  • Left space: Gain 1 lira
  • Middle space: None
  • Right space: None

Do one of the following two things:

  • Build a structure:
    • Choose either a structure on your player board or a structure in your hand
    • Pay the cost of the structure
    • Place the structure on your board
    • If it is a structure card, receive the number of victory points written on the bottom of the card after placing it
    • You may remove a placed structure card to make room for a new one if you want
  • Receive 2 lira:
    • If you have built the tasting room, and you have at least one wine token in your cellar, gain 1 victory point:
      • You can only receive a victory point from giving a tour in this way once per year

Wake-up chart bonuses for this season:

Row PositionBonus1None2None3None4Draw 1 structure card5Place or move 1 influence token6Age all grape tokens one space on crush pad7Take the grape token

Bonuses:

  • Left space: Receive 1 lira
  • Middle space: Play an additional winter visitor card
  • Right space: None
  • Play a winter visitor card from your hand and follow instructions
  • Discard the card

Bonuses:

  • Left space: Receive 1 lira
  • Middle space: None
  • Right space: None
  • Pay 4 lira to the the bank:
    • If you want to hire a special worker, pay one extra lira
  • Take a worker from your supply for use starting from next year

Bonuses:

  • Left space: Draw 1 structure card
  • Middle space: Place or move 1 influence marker
  • Right space: None
  • Choose a wine token in your cellar
  • Based on its type, score victory points:
    • White or red: 1 victory point
    • Blush: 2 victory points
    • Sparkling: 4 victory points
  • Remove the chone token from your cellar
  • The value of the wine does not matter for this sale

Bonuses:

  • Left space: None
  • Middle space: Gain 1 victory point
  • Right space: None
  • Place the wine order face-up in front of you
  • Remove wine tokens from your cellar matching those listed on the card
  • Gain the number of victory points shown on the card
  • Move your residual payments marker up as many spaces as shown on the card:
    • You cannot move this marker past the 5 lira space
  • Discard the card

Note: Any number of workers may be placed into this space

  • Either gain 1 lira or draw 1 structure card from the deck

Note: You may pass out of winter at any time, even if you have unused workers

When you pass, you do the following:

  • Retrieve your workers from the game board
  • Age grapes and wine:
    • Move all wine and grape tokens up one space
    • You cannot move tokens into a cellar you have not built yet
  • Discard down to 7 cards
  • Collect residual payments
  • Place your rooster token in the Spring column of the wake-up chart in the row of your choice:
    • If you have the grape token this year, meaning you were in row 7 of the wake-up chart:
      • You must choose row 1 for next year
    • Only one token can be placed on a row
    • You do not do this step if the game end has been triggered

Note: This action can be taken in any season

If you have built the yoke, you can also use its action space to do one of the following:

  • Uproot 1 vine:
    • Remove 1 vine card from a field
    • Discard it
  • Harvest 1 field:
    • Choose a field with vines on it
    • Add up the value of red grapes and white grapes
    • Place 1 token on your crush pad for each colour of grapes:
      • If the space for the value of the sum is taken, place the token on the next lowest available space
    • Each field can only be harvested once a year

The game end is triggered when a player reaches 25 points. The current year when the players reaches this point total is completed, and then final scoring commences.

Each player scores points for the following:

  • Points for majorities in the influence map

The player with the most victory points wins.

Tiebreakers are:

  • Players with the most lira
  • Players with the most total value of wine in their cellar
  • Players with the most total value of grapes on their crush pad

Otherwise, the victory is shared

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