In Ludo Veritas
Board Games on Wine
November 28, 2010

Last added: King's Vineyard (2010), Vendimia (2010), Vintage (2011)
Previously added: Grand Cru (2010), Toscana (2010), Vinhos (2010), Wine Wars (2009), Wine Fluency (2008), Washington Wine Trails (2008), Winemakers (2006), Wine Teasers (2005), Die Weinhändler (2004), Welt der Weine (2003), Taste for Wine and Murder: Murder Mystery Party Game (2000), Bouquet (1999), Chateau Vinspelet (1989), Le Wine Game (1985), The Winery Game (1983), Wine Cellar (1971), Table Topics To Go: Wine, Wine Cellar, Winerd, Vino!, Wine Smarts, Wineopoly, Wine Glass Skittle Game, Grapevine, Vinspelet, Vinspillet

Strategy	Trivia	Party
2011 NEW: 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. B 2010 NEW: 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! B NEW: 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. NEW: 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. B NEW: 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. B NEW: 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 B 2009 NEW: Crush Discovery Bay Games Dice-rolling/push your luck game including 7 dice and cup. Published c. 2008-9. [Amazon] 2008 NEW: Wineopoly Late for the Sky Like Monopoly but with a wine theme. Published c. 2008-9. [Amazon] 2006 NEW: 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 B 2004 NEW: Weinhändler, Die Roman Pelek and Claudia Hely; Amigo/Mayfair Wine merchants trade and deal wine. Includes bidding and set collection. Card game. [Amazon] 2000 Weinhändler, Die Dominique Ehrhard; 2000 Piatnik/Rio Grande more B 1999 Vino Christwart Conrad; Goldsieber/Rio Grande more B 1992 Vins de France, Les Warren Mullison; The Brandywise Game Company The game of French wine and food B 1989 NEW: 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. B NEW: Winery Game, The D.E. Bowker Players represent various wineries which buy grapes, bottle wines and try to sell them most profitably. B 1987 Connoisseur Liam Badger; Villa Games B (unknown year) NEW: Grapevine Paul Cockburn and Phil Gallagher; Games Workshop Roll-and-move racing about England collecting various wines B NEW: WineCellar Winecellar Productions Object is to 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. [Amazon]	2009 NEW: Wine Wars Joyce Lock; Chronicle Books Categories include viticulture, world production, cellar practice, tasting science and business. B 2008 NEW: Washington Wine Trails Joe Mason, David & Seth Portteus; Mind Games Roll-and-move trivia game about the winemaking in the western state. B 2006 NEW: Wine Smarts Smarts Co. Cards and booklets; intended for novice winos. Published c. 2006. [Amazon] 2005 NEW: Wine Teasers Jennifer Rosen; Fine Wine Games Questions are multiple choice. [Amazon] 2003 NEW: 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. B 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. B 1999 NEW: 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. B 1997 Wine Game, The 1997 Boxer Games Roll to move and ask a question or two. Made and sold in the UK. more B 1986 NEW: Wine Connoisseur, The 1986 BDJ Enterprises Includes a board. B 1985 California Wine Quiz, Napa Valley Edition Michael Hat; 1985 Michael Hat Productions more B (unknown year) NEW: 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? [Amazon] NEW: Vino! Carajean Entertainment Roll-and-move trivia game [Amazon] NEW: Vinspelet Joker Roll the dice to move around Europe. Correct answers to questions earn wine bottles. In Swedish. B NEW: 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. B NEW: Wine Cellar Dynamic Roll-and-move game set in the California wine country. B NEW: Wine Cellar Dynamic Roll-and-move game set in the California wine country. B NEW: Winerd Winerd Roll-and-move trivia game using cork pawns includes around 300 cards plus 12 challenge cards. [Amazon]	2008 Blind Wine Marc Sisler and Josh Haller Blind-tasting; bringer of the highest scored wine wins. more Karafe Jeff Cohen; Karafe Games Monopoly-like with blind tasting and trivia. more NEW: Wine Fluency James Budelman and Andrew Majercik; Cerebroscape Wine tasting game in which players taste and compare their results with official ones. B 2003 WineSmarts Julie Tucker and Jennifer Elias; SmartsCo more B 2001 Worldwide Wines S. Twombly more B White Wine Game, The Parker Stoner & Juanita Jackson-Stoner; Parstone more B 2000 NEW: 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. [Amazon] 1999 Quaffers Quaffers more B 1994 Connoisseur Emmor Ray Sperry B 1987 Tödlicher Wein A. Blumenkamp, H. Wieser, U. Schade; Schmidt Role-playing game. B 1985 NEW: 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. B 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. B (unknown year) Booze Cruise B Kottabos Ancient Greece Dexterity game. more B Tablero da Gucci Steve Gray more B Vinesque more B NEW: Wine Glass Skittle Game Potpourri Gifts Typical Skittles arrangement, but the "pins" to be knocked down are metal wine glasses. [Amazon] WineLovers' Challenge B

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