2013
Viticulture
Jamey Stegmaier & Alan Stone; Stonemaier Games; 2-6; 60
Worker placement game set in Tuscany.
Players begin with with three workers, a little land and some
winemaking facilities.
The first worker at each type of task earns a special advantage.
Tourists, in the form of cards, provide random bursts of income.
Players earn money to expand their lands and facilities to earn more
money and so on.
Tuscany is the name of a planned expansion slated for 2014.
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2011
Vintage
Gil d'Orey; MESAboardgames; 2-4; 90
Players are growing grapes and producing wine in the
Douro valley
of Portugal. They then transport wine barrels down the Douro river
in order to get them to the international market.
2010
Grand Cru
Ulrich Blum; eggertspiele/Heidelberger Spieleverlag; 2-5; 90
Offers all of the facets of running a vineyard: finding locations,
meeting bankers, making investments and managing the cellar. Win the
game by paying off your loans!
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King's Vineyard
David Haslam & Sandeep Kharkar; Mayday Games; 2-4; 45
A card management game of competing in a number of different areas,
e.g. grapes (their color, sweetness, vine uniformity), goblets, bottles
and barrels. The player doing the overall best is chosen by the king
to manage his vineyards.
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My Little Vineyard
Scott Slomiany; web-published; 2-6; 20; 8+
Dice and resource management game of making wine.
A number of dice form a central pool and players take turns
drafting groups of dice from it to buy
supplies sufficient to make a barrel of wine.
Toscana
Paul Laane; Aqua Games / 2010 Competo/Marektoy
Offers all of the facets of
running a winery in Tuscany: hire workers, hold tastings,
make wine and trade it on the local market.
Vendimia
Alberto Abudinen & Diego Benavente; Aldebaran Games/AZ Games; 2-4; 60
Players represent Chilean wine producers who choose varieties,
different strains, produce wine and sell it depending on demand.
Possible adverse conditions include droughts, floods etc.
Mechanisms include dice and card drafting and action points.
Made in Chile.
Vinhos
Vital Laderda; What's Your Game
In Portugal,
players choose varieties, cultivate the vines, hire winemakers and attempt
to sell their products at the market. Made in Portugal, but containing no
in game text to translate.
more
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2009
Crush
Discovery Bay Games
Dice-rolling/push your luck game including 7 dice and cup.
Published c. 2008-9.
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2008
Wineopoly
Late for the Sky
Like Monopoly but with a wine theme. Published c. 2008-9.
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2007
The Grape Game
Gilles Bourjade; Veni Vedi Viti; 2-6; 30
Player represent vineyard managers concerned with an entire
wine season from pruning to harvest. They perform tasks which have
associated costs and personnel and equipment requirements. Completion
earns cards which must be collected in pairs for a successful harvest,
the more pairs the better the harvest.
Obstacles include weather, diseases, accidents and competition for
hiring.
Includes a booklet on growing vines.
In France known as Vign'en Jeu.
2006
Winemakers - El Juego del Vino
Gonzalo Pagés; 2006 Pages/Terranova
In this Argentine game, players acquire properties in Mendoza, select varieties,
harvest, make wine, bottle and label it, trying to make as much money as
possible. Mechanisms are roll-and-move, set collection and card drafting.
more
2004
Weinhändler, Die
Roman Pelek and Claudia Hely; Amigo/Mayfair
Wine merchants trade and deal wine. Includes bidding and set collection.
Card game.
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2000
Weinhändler, Die
Dominique Ehrhard; 2000 Piatnik/Rio Grande
more
1999
Vino
Christwart Conrad; Goldsieber/Rio Grande
more
1992
Vins de France, Les
Warren Mullison; The Brandywise Game Company
The game of French wine and food
1989
Château Vinspelet
Casper/Target
Roll-and-move to gain contracts, wines and grapes in various European
countries. Player having the most money wins. In Swedish.
Winery Game, The
D.E. Bowker
Players represent various wineries which buy grapes, bottle wines and
try to sell them most profitably.
1987
Connoisseur
Liam Badger; Villa Games
1986
Des Crus et des Vins
unknown; Mazas Edition; 3-6; 120
French language game of exploring French vineyards and collecting
wines.
Dice determine the type of the player's car and home region where
he can spend the night free.
A turn consists of the player telling the gamemaster what actions he
will pursue for the day. The GM rolls the dice to determine hazards
and consequences.
(unknown year)
Grapevine
Paul Cockburn and Phil Gallagher; Games Workshop
Roll-and-move racing about England collecting various wines
WineCellar
Winecellar Productions
Collect as many different wines within each category
(country, region or state) as possible. Includes
giant 36-piece floor puzzle, dice,
4 wooden wine bottle pawns, wine card, winecellar cards and
scoresheet.
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2013
Das Weinquiz
unknown; Huch & Friends; 2-5; 45
2012
The Little Game of Wine
unknown; Tactic; 2-
Includes not only trivia question cards, but also cards
which require memorization after only a thirty-second look
or unscrambling words.
2009
Wine Wars
Joyce Lock; Chronicle Books
Categories include viticulture, world production, cellar practice, tasting
science and business.
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Prova Vin!
(uncredited); Tactic-2009; 4-8; 60
After a blind tasting of several wines during which players guess as many
attributes as possible, this is a roll-and-move game where the players
follow instructions, solving puzzles based on the card drawn, e.g.
finding a word among a scramble, getting teammates to say a particular word,
memorizing elements of a picture, etc.
2008
Washington Wine Trails
Joe Mason, David & Seth Portteus; Mind Games
Roll-and-move trivia game about the winemaking in the western state.
2007
Das Kleine Weinquiz
Dieter & Uta Bernecker; Huch & Friends; 1
One hundred questions in a spiral notebook.
2006
CocktailSmarts
unknown; SmartsCo; 2-4
Questions cover cocktail ingredients, history, lingo, etc.
Includes 60 cards and a set of coasters.
Red WineSmarts
unknown; SmartsCo; 2-4; 45
One hundred questions cards cover grape varieties and wine regions,
vocabulary and history.
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Wine Smarts
Smarts Co.
Cards and booklets; intended for novice winos. Published c. 2006.
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2005
Wine Teasers
Jennifer Rosen; Fine Wine Games
Questions are multiple choice.
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2003
Welt der Weine
Huch & Friends/Dutchport International as World of Wines
Various levels of expertise are supported; questions are mainly on
famous and current labels.
2001
Oenologus
2001 Tamdem éditions
Includes a
wooden box, a map of France, 6 bottle-meeples, 1 die and 8 sets of 44 cards.
Each card has three questions.
1999
Bouquet
Britt-Marie Backe; Somja'lär Wine Entertainment
Roll-and-move trivia with 900 questions and three levels of play.
Topics include varieties, regions, wineries, distilled wines, fortified wines
and technical terms.
1997
Wine Game, The
1997 Boxer Games
Roll to move and ask a question or two. Made and sold in the UK.
1986
Wine Connoisseur, The
1986 BDJ Enterprises
Includes a board.
1985
California Wine Quiz, Napa Valley Edition
Michael Hat; 1985 Michael Hat Productions
more
(unknown year)
Gusto Vin
Jonas Nyberg & Simon Svensson; Njutningsfrämjandet; 2-15; 60
Trivia and wagering on wine knowledge.
Table Topics To Go: Wine
Table Topics
Conversation-starter cards about wine, e.g.
if you could drink only one varietal for the rest of your life which would you choose? What's the best accompaniment to a great bottle of cabernet? What's your best memory of sharing a bottle with someone special?
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Vino!
Carajean Entertainment
Roll-and-move trivia game
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Vinspelet
Joker
Roll the dice to move around Europe. Correct answers to questions earn wine
bottles. In Swedish.
Vinspillet
Finn Pristed and Kaj Dideriksen; FDB
Roll the dice to move around France. Correct answers on question spaces earn wine If you land on a chateau you can buy it, if unowned; otherwise you must
pay the owner. In Finnish.
Wine Cellar
Dynamic
Roll-and-move game set in the California wine country.
Wine Cellar
Dynamic
Roll-and-move game set in the California wine country.
Winerd
Winerd
Roll-and-move trivia game using cork pawns includes around 300 cards
plus 12 challenge cards.
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Wineology
unknown; Ernest & Julio Gallo Winery; 3; 45
A game in the style of
Trivial Pursuit
that includes tasting five varietals:
Cabernet Sauvignon,
Chardonnay,
Merlot,
Sauvignon Blanc,
Zinfandel.
The four question categories are
Food & Wine,
Wine Making,
Wine Senses,
Wild Card.
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2013
Boozle
Andy Niggles; Zeitgeyser LLC; 1-8; 10
Players each simultaneously choose and reveal actions, two of Snatch, Nope,
Drink, Draw and Repeat. At the beginning of each turn all players
simultaneously choose two of their actions and play them in secret.
Win by collecting five boozles of the same color.
2008
Blind Wine
Marc Sisler and Josh Haller
Blind-tasting; bringer of the highest scored wine wins.
Karafe
Jeff Cohen; Karafe Games
Monopoly-like with blind tasting and trivia.
Wine Fluency
James Budelman and Andrew Majercik; Cerebroscape
Wine tasting game in which players taste and compare their results
with official ones.
2002
WineSmarts
Julie Tucker and Jennifer Elias; SmartsCo
One hundred questions cards cover grape varieties and wine regions,
vocabulary and history.
more
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2001
Worldwide Wines
S. Twombly
more
White Wine Game, The
Parker Stoner & Juanita Jackson-Stoner; Parstone
more
2000
Taste for Wine and Murder: Murder Mystery Party Game
Includes a party planning guide with menu, recipes, character information
booklets, invites, place cards for eight, secret clues and a CD with introduction, summary and solution revelation.
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1999
Quaffers
Quaffers
1994
Connoisseur
Emmor Ray Sperry
1987
Tödlicher Wein
A. Blumenkamp, H. Wieser, U. Schade; Schmidt
Role-playing game.
1992
The Grape Escape
(uncredited); Parker Brothers/Tonka Corporation-1992; 2-4; 20; 5+
Roll-and-move game for kids with pieces they mold themselves into the shape
of a grape. Try to progress without getting squished, literally.
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1987
Tödlicher Wein
A. Blumenkamp, H. Wieser, U. Schade; Schmidt
Role-playing game.
1985
Le Wine Game
The WineSearch Group
Couples game in which everyone samples four wines and takes notes.
Then the wines are re-ordered and players now attempt to identify
them using their notes.
1972
Wine Game, The
Sheila Hoffman; Wine Diversions
Roll the die to travel through the wine producing countries of the world,
answering questions about wine.
(unknown year)
Booze Cruise
Kottabos
Ancient Greece
Dexterity game.
more
Tablero da Gucci
Steve Gray
more
Vinesque
Wine Glass Skittle Game
Potpourri Gifts
Typical Skittles arrangement, but the "pins" to be knocked down
are metal wine glasses.
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