Vinhos: Deluxe Edition

Vinhos: Deluxe Edition

Run a Portuguese wine business across six years of vineyard development, production, sales, exports and tasting fairs, turning quality and timing into prestige.

Vinhos: Deluxe Edition supports 1–4 players; community best: 4 players; playing time: 90–180 minutes. A WANGO browser trial has not been confirmed.

Background & introduction

Establish estates in different regions and equip them with vineyards, wineries, enologists and farmers. Weather changes each year's production quality, while cellars let wine age longer. With only two main actions per year, future output and selling opportunities need advance preparation.

A wine can earn cash, score exports or represent you at a fair, but delivering it removes it from your stock. Regional renown is shared by everyone established there, so spending renown cubes and choosing when to release wine also affect your rivals.

The Deluxe box offers both 2010 and 2016 rules. This entry uses Special Vintage 2016: fair reputation accumulates, experts and Magnate Action tiles offer extra choices, and export majorities and final multipliers reward planning across cash, facilities and long-term scoring.

Core rules & scoring

  1. Setup: Use the 2016 sides and player-count supplies, regions and Magnate tiles. Receive 19/20/21/22 Bagos in turn order. Each player starts with 2 barrels and 6 more divided among the three Magnates; put action markers in the center. In order, take a free initial vineyard, place regional renown and a region disc, and receive starting wine and regional benefits. Then choose one Magnate Action tile in reverse order. Ordinary starting wine has quality 2, with regional exceptions.

  2. Six-year structure: Reveal weather, take one action each, adjust order, then take a second action each and adjust order again, followed by maintenance, aging and production. Skip the first start-of-year phase because setup already reveals weather. Fairs follow production in years 3, 5 and 6. Before years 4 and 6, refresh face-down Experts and Magnate Action tiles.

  3. Action movement: Move to another space and perform its action. Orthogonal or diagonal adjacency is free; a nonadjacent move costs 1 to the supply. Pay 1 to each player already at the destination and 1 to the supply if the Year/Taxation marker is there. Moving to central Pass/Press Release is always free. Remain there only when no other action is possible.

  4. Development and employees: Buy one vineyard from each of one or two different regions. Vineyards sharing an estate must match region and wine color. Wineries cost 3 each and cellars 3 each, building one or two per respective action. Hire one or two employees: enologists cost 3 and require empty wineries; farmers cost 2 and require empty vineyards. Establishing a new estate grants its regional benefit once.

  5. Production and value: First age stocked wines one slot right, discarding any that pass the final slot. Reassign employees if desired, then produce one wine per estate with vineyards. Quality is 2 per vineyard, 1 per farmer, 1 per winery and 2 per enologist, modified by weather and applicable Porto production; quality zero produces nothing. Sale, export and fair value additionally includes cellar aging, regional effects and optionally 1–2 renown cubes. Value bonuses do not permanently change quality.

  6. Sales and exports: Process one or two wines per action, placing one barrel in an empty slot and discarding each wine. Sales require matching color and minimum value, paying that slot's cash. Exports require the slot value, immediately score its points and compete for final column majorities. Remove renown cubes only when needed to reach the chosen slot's threshold. Tied export majorities split column points, rounded down.

  7. Experts and Magnates: Hire one or two Experts for 1 each, with no holding limit. During your action turn, flip at most one face-up Expert for its ability. Also flip at most one Magnate Action tile, only before movement, before or after the main action, never interrupting it. A face-down Expert cannot improve your next Press Release; refresh used tiles after the first two fairs, not after the third.

  8. Press Release and maintenance: At the center, first reserve an empty lower-row player-order position, then pass or present exactly one wine for the coming fair. Gain its value in Fair Points, choose an empty booth and its bonus, and optionally discard matching face-up Experts according to current weather. Meeting Magnate requests allows at most one barrel from each of two different Magnates, then discard the wine. Present once per fair. During maintenance retrieve exactly one sales barrel if you have any.

  9. Fairs: Award ranking points from cumulative Fair Points, which never reset. Ties pool the occupied places' points and divide rounded down; two players use first- and third-place awards. Left-to-right booth positions set subsequent order. Players then take turns discarding one stocked wine per Magnate Action or Multiplier tile acquired, with passing permanent for this fair. A multiplier requires an available barrel placed on it. Do not hold duplicate tiles with the same icon.

  10. Endgame: After the third fair, each player takes one more action in current order, then scores. Keep earned points and add the cash-table award, half each stocked wine's quality rounded down, export column majorities and multipliers still bearing barrels. Highest score wins; ties favor more export barrels, then more money. The final action permits an Expert and Magnate Action tile under their usual limits.

Rules & gameplay questions

Does this entry use the 2010 or 2016 rules?

Special Vintage 2016, using its board and player-board sides. The 2010 banking, investments, Expert holding limit and different fair system are outside this summary.

Does aging directly increase a wine tile's quality number?

No. Printed quality stays unchanged. Cellar aging increases value when selling, exporting or presenting wine. Final stocked wines score half quality, not value including aging and renown.

Are renown cubes I placed reserved for me?

No. Anyone with an estate in that region can use its renown. During sales and exports remove cubes only when they actually help reach the chosen slot's threshold, never simply to deny them to rivals.

Do Fair Points reset after a fair?

No. They accumulate throughout the game and each fair awards victory points for the current cumulative ranking. A wine already presented has been delivered; it cannot later be sold or replaced at the last moment.

Does the third fair immediately trigger final scoring?

First each player takes one final action in current order, still able to use one face-up Expert and one face-up Magnate Action tile. Used tiles do not refresh after the third fair.

Rules & introduction sources
Edition
Uses Vinhos Deluxe Edition's Special Vintage 2016 multiplayer base rules for 2–4 players. Main sources are the publisher's currently linked English rulebook with 2021 production date and the publisher-authored Reference Book's 2016 sections. Excludes 2010 Reserve banking/investment and fair systems, solitaire, expansion regions, promotional material and expansion Experts.
Introduction source
BoardGameGeek

WANGO editorial

Vinhos: Deluxe Edition · Game parameters
ParameterRecorded value
BGG overall rank (snapshot)#156
Complexity Weight3.99 / 5
Best player count (community)4
Player range1–4
Playing time (minutes)90–180
Core mechanismsArea Majority / Influence · Automatic Resource Growth · Catch the Leader · Contracts · End Game Bonuses · Events · Force Commitment · Income · Investment · Loans · Solo / Solitaire Game · Track Movement · Turn Order: Pass Order · Turn Order: Stat-Based · Variable Phase Order · Worker Placement
Chinese publicationUnconfirmed
WANGO browser playNo confirmed WANGO trial
Year published2016
Suggested age12+

BGG statistics are stored snapshots, not live rankings. Source checked:2026-09-27

Player questions

What is the best player count for Vinhos: Deluxe Edition, and can I play online?

Vinhos: Deluxe Edition supports 1–4 players; community best: 4 players; playing time: 90–180 minutes. A WANGO browser trial has not been confirmed. Recorded mechanism tags: Solo / Solitaire Game.

How complex is Vinhos: Deluxe Edition, and which mechanisms does it use?

Weight: 3.99 / 5. Mechanisms: Area Majority / Influence · Automatic Resource Growth · Catch the Leader · Contracts · End Game Bonuses · Events · Force Commitment · Income · Investment · Loans · Solo / Solitaire Game · Track Movement · Turn Order: Pass Order · Turn Order: Stat-Based · Variable Phase Order · Worker Placement. Chinese publication: Unconfirmed.

Where can I learn Vinhos: Deluxe Edition?

No rule guide, strategy article or WANGO trial has been confirmed for this record.