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Let's auction off some wine! You and your rival sommeliers have decided to face off to determine who is the best. Each person will take on a client, building a cellar that ages well and is suited to the client's tastes.
Over the course of eight rounds in Wine Cellar, players will collect wine bottles to create a cellar for their client. Bottles will be arranged to create a timeline for the order in which the wine will be consumed. Each bottle is worth different amounts based upon where it is in the timeline. Players will also receive points based on their client's preferences for wine type and country of origin.
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Year Published
2025
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Pros
- Innovative stacking and bid mechanics
- Engaging drafting and interaction around the central pool
- Humorous and flavorful theme with wine connoisseur banter
- Strong table presence and component quality highlighted by sponsorship
Cons
- Theme may not appeal to all players
- Rules can be complex and mentally taxing, especially with more players
- Advanced rules add significant complexity and logistics
- Requires substantial table space, potentially unwieldy with eight players
Thematic elements
- Wine collection, bidding, and client satisfaction
- Wine cellar and wine market environment where players assemble a wine rack and fulfill client requests.
- Humorous, light-hearted banter with a playful, connoisseur vibe
Comparison games
- Vita Culture
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Advanced rules option — Optional rules introduce two stacks or other adjustments to scale with player count.
- Central-bottle bidding / auction — Each round players bid with face-down cards to claim bottles from a central pool; highest bid gets first pick.
- Client-based scoring — Clients grant bonus points for matching wine types or origins.
- Drafting and card economy — Start with a hand of bid cards; after bids, new bottles/cards appear in the middle for future rounds.
- Position-based scoring — Points are awarded based on a bottle's position in your rack, with higher positions being more valuable.
- Stacking and rack-building — Players add bottles to a personal rack either on the top or bottom; cannot insert in between.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The eight is the high value.
- Top or bottom.
- The diagonal.
- Chose very poorly.
- You will get the victory points for your wine rack.
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