Eagle-Gryphon Games | £129.99 | Economic | 2-4 players | 90-180 minutes | Age: 12+ | eaglegames.net
Players produce and age their wine over a number of years, choosing whether to enter it in the national wine fair.
With a winemaking theme, Eurogame mechanics and a Portuguese setting and title (meaning ‘wines’), Vinhos may potentially be the most European board game we’ve ever played. Not only that, but with this new deluxe edition including both the 2010 original and revised 2016 rules and components, plus all of the expansions unlocked during the game’s $268,800 Kickstarter, all together in an enormous heavy box, it might also be one of the most board games we’ve ever played.
Partially because it would take a whole extra magazine to cover the box in its entirety, we’ve focused on the new 2016 version of the game in this review, which ditches the bank and other aspects of the original to offer a simplified and streamlined alternative. We’ve also skipped the expansions, of which there are many included – all of them add slight but valuable variations to the base game, from extra regions to different experts and expanded cellars, and can be mixed and matched depending on your group’s preferences for impressive replayability.
BOX CONTENTS
‣ Double-sided game board