Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Player-count sensitive
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Run neighboring Burgundy farms through two years of paired-worker placement, production, aging, and sales while keeping wine and cheese profits carefully balanced.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Worker Placement
Commit limited workers to action spaces before opponents occupy them.
Highest-Lowest Scoring
Final scoring depends on balancing categories because the highest or lowest value matters.
Contracts
Complete specific requirements to earn rewards, income, or victory points.
Read the full game description
Wine & Cheese is a two-player strategy game about rival farms sharing Burgundy’s vineyards, pastures, and labor. In spring, paired workers move from farmhouses to plots; in autumn, they return, with each placement and retrieval producing ingredients according to the active farmhouse pattern. Multi-use cards become products, actions, or gourmet pairings, and timing determines when wine and cheese mature and sell. The shared money track and tight storage force constant interaction. At the end of two years, only the lower of each farm’s wine and cheese earnings counts, so a spectacular specialty cannot compensate for neglecting the other half of the business.
