Wine, Regions and Renown

How Vinhos wine is made and valued: aging, the Production phase, Wine Quality, Wine Value, Region Renown cubes, Porto and the nine regions' characteristics.

Two numbers matter for every wine, and the game keeps them apart:

• Wine Quality — fixed when the wine is made; it is the number on the Wine tile.
• Wine Value — worked out each time the wine is sold, exported or presented at the Fair: Quality plus aging, Renown and region bonuses.

Aging

During each Production, before new wine is made, every Wine tile in your Warehouses and Cellars moves one slot to the right: it has aged a year. A wine pushed out of the last slot is lost — discard it. A Warehouse has 2 slots; a Cellar has 4 and adds value as the wine ages.

Production

Put the Year/Taxation marker on the Production space and, all at once:

1. Age wine — move every Wine tile one slot right; discard what falls off.
2. Redistribute workers (optional) — move your Enologists and Farmers between your Estates, one Enologist per Winery and one Farmer per Vineyard.
3. Produce — every Estate with at least one Vineyard works out its Wine Quality. If it is above 0, take the matching Wine tile from the supply and put it in the leftmost slot of that Estate’s Warehouse or Cellar, red or white side up to match its Vineyards. An Estate without a Vineyard makes nothing; a Quality of 0 or less makes nothing (there are no 0 tiles).

Each Estate makes one wine a year, however many Vineyards and Wineries it has.

Wine Quality

An Estate’s Wine Quality this year:

Wine Value

When a wine is sold, exported or presented at a Press Release:

A wine in a Warehouse gets no aging bonus.

Region Renown cubes

Each region’s inset holds Renown cubes. A cube is added (if the supply has one and the inset has room) when anyone buys a Vineyard, Winery or Cellar for an Estate there, and for each initial Vineyard. Free Wineries and Cellars from region bonuses add none.

• Anyone with an Estate in the region (a disc on the map there) may spend its cubes, whoever put them there. That is what the discs on the map are for.
• Spend 1 or 2 per wine, returning them to the supply.
• When selling or exporting you may spend them only if you need them to reach the chosen slot. At a Press Release they simply add Fair Points.

Regions

Portugal has 9 wine regions, numbered 1–9 (used by Carolina and by the solo Number cards). You play with 7 regions with 2 players, 8 with 3 and all 9 with 4 (Setup). Each region has its own deck of 4 Vineyards — 2 red, 2 white.

Region bonuses

The bonus comes with the first Vineyard of an Estate in that region (including your initial Vineyard), never with the second Vineyard of the same Estate. One Estate still makes only one wine each year, even with two Vineyards or Wineries; the bonuses in regions 1, 2, 8 and 9 apply continuously instead of being a one-time reward. FAQ, FAQ.

Region	Region bonus and starting wine
	Bonus: 1 Trás-os-Montes — +2 Fair Points when you present a Trás-os-Montes wine; Initial Vineyard: Usual value-2 wine
	Bonus: 2 Minho — you can never build a Cellar in a Minho Estate; Initial Vineyard: Usual value-2 wine
	Bonus: 3 Douro — take 2 Porto tiles; Initial Vineyard: A value-2 wine, or spend a Porto tile at once for a 5
	Bonus: 4 Dão — a free Cellar on this Estate (no Renown cube for it); Initial Vineyard: The value-2 wine goes in the Cellar’s first slot
	Bonus: 5 Ribatejo — a free Farmer on this Estate’s Vineyard; Initial Vineyard: Farmer and a value-3 wine
	Bonus: 6 Lisboa — a free Winery on this Estate (no Renown cube for it); Initial Vineyard: Winery and a value-3 wine
	Bonus: 7 Setúbal — take 2 Wine Experts from the top of any deck(s), face up; Initial Vineyard: Usual value-2 wine
	Bonus: 8 Alentejo — each Renown cube spent here is worth +2 instead of +1; Initial Vineyard: Usual value-2 wine
	Bonus: 9 Algarve — +1 Wine Value whenever its wine is sold, exported or presented; Initial Vineyard: Usual value-2 wine

Free Cellars, Wineries and Farmers come from the board’s supply; if it is empty, the bonus is lost.

Porto tiles

The 6 Porto tiles start in the Douro inset. During Production you may discard one Porto tile to give one Douro wine +3 Quality; it goes back to the Douro inset for the next player who opens a Douro Estate. Keep yours for a great year or to rescue a terrible one. Porto never adds to Value when you sell or export.

[Islands] The Islands pack adds Madeira and Açores as regions (Islands).