{"product_id":"viticulture-essential-edition","title":"Viticulture Essential Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou inherit a vineyard in Tuscany. It is small. The light is good. Your workers need assignments and so do you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViticulture Essential Edition is a worker-placement game for 1 to 6 players from Stonemaier Games. Each year you plant vines, tend fields, host visitors who unlock special actions, make wine, and fill wine orders for points. It is a compact strategy game that repays planning without punishing a missed turn, and it runs 45 to 90 minutes depending on player count.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat earns this edition its reputation is the curation. It folds the second edition of Viticulture together with hand-picked pieces of the original Tuscany expansion, chosen with input from designer Uwe Rosenberg. The result is tighter than the original and more interesting than the base second edition, and it is the version most experienced players will recommend by default.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is one of our favorite games to suggest for couples. Two-player Viticulture is genuinely excellent, and the game has real depth without the brain-cooked feeling that heavier euros can leave behind. It also welcomes new strategy gamers well because the theme is intuitive and the actions are clearly laid out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolo play is a genuine feature here, not an afterthought: the Automa deck runs a simulated opponent that adapts to your moves and gives you a proper single-player game. Viticulture set the standard for Stonemaier solo modes, and that work shows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stonemaier Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48319294570745,"sku":"STM105","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/7527\/5001\/files\/01-box-front_7a90819b-58b5-4bad-a9c6-8520a89fcd90.png?v=1777065300","url":"https:\/\/thegameconnection.com\/products\/viticulture-essential-edition","provider":"The Game Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}