Expansion: Experts Pack
The Vinhos Deluxe Experts Pack: 32 new Wine Expert tiles with eight new abilities, and the Fun, Balanced and Controlled deck variants.
Short tag: [Experts]
32 more Wine Expert tiles — 8 new abilities, 4 tiles each (one per wine feature) — for both the 2010 Reserve and the Special Vintage 2016. All the usual Wine Expert rules still apply: hire them with the Wine Experts action, discard them at a Press Release, flip one per turn for its ability.
What it adds
Add the new tiles to the base Experts, sorted by feature, then build the decks with one of the variants below.
Setup changes
| Variant | How to build the four decks |
|---|---|
| Fun | For each feature, shuffle all its Experts (base and new) and deal a deck of 7; the rest go back in the box. Surprising, uneven decks. |
| Balanced | Pick one feature, shuffle its Experts and deal 7. Then build the other three decks from the Experts with the same 7 abilities. Every deck holds the same 7 Experts. |
| Controlled | Choose the 7 abilities you want and make each feature’s deck from them. Only after a few games. |
Shuffle each deck and put it face up on its space.
The eight new Experts
| Expert | Ability (flip face down on your turn) |
|---|---|
 | The Advertisers — take a Magnate tile without discarding a wine. In the Special Vintage 2016 it is used only while buying Magnate tiles at the end of a Fair. (2010: use a Magnate benefit without spending a wine.) |
 | The Marketers — each barrel exported in this Export action scores +1 VP. |
 | The Salesmen — each barrel sold in this Sales action earns +1 Bago. |
 | The Spies — use the ability of an opponent’s face-up Expert; theirs stays face up. |
 | The Meteorologists — secretly look at the next Vintage tile. |
 | The Reviewers — advance 2 Fair Points. |
 | The Estate Managers — move one of your Wineries to another Estate. |
 | The Public Relations — put this Expert at the bottom of its deck and take the top Expert of any deck. |
Rules notes
- The one-Expert-per-turn limit of the 2016 rules applies to the new Experts too.
- At a Press Release a new Expert is discarded for its feature, like any other.
- In the solo game Lacerda takes Experts by feature as usual; their abilities do not change his play.
Scoring changes
None beyond the abilities. Every new Expert counts for the Multiplier that scores Wine Experts.