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Wine Cellar

A fine bottle is only half the answer. Bid at the right moment, cellar it in the right place, and serve exactly what your client wants.

Card Game Auction / Bidding Auction: Sealed Bid Hand Management

Players

1-8

Play time

20 min

Age

10+

Complexity

1.66/5

Rating

7.06

Easier to teach Highly interactive Light strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 4.8/5

Easier to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 4.3/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.5/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 2.8/5

Light strategy

Player control 3.8/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 5 min
Teach time About 8 min
Table footprint Medium
Recommended edition Wine Cellar – 25th Century Games English Edition (2025)
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How it plays

How does it play?

Bid blind for bottles, arrange a perfectly timed cellar, and satisfy a demanding client in twenty minutes of elegant auction play.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Read the full game description

Wine Cellar is a compact auction game in which rival sommeliers build collections for particular clients. Each of eight rounds presents bottles with different origins, varieties, ages, and values. Players secretly choose bids, reveal together, and resolve the auction in bid order, creating a sharp contest between conserving purchasing power and securing the bottle that best fits the plan. Won bottles enter a personal timeline representing the order in which they will be consumed. Position matters: each wine scores differently as it matures, while the client card rewards favored regions or styles and pushes each player toward a distinct collection. The rules are concise and turns move quickly even with a large table because bidding is simultaneous. A solo mode supplies its own challenge, and the included More Clients promo expands the objectives. The result is an accessible auction game with enough timing, valuation, and spatial planning to reward repeated tastings.

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Editions

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Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
Wine Cellar – 25th Century Games English Edition (2025) 2025 English 25th Century Games / US

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All specifications (17)

Play and group

Players
1–8
Play time
20 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.7/5
App
None app

Practicalities

Setup time
About 5 min
Teach time
About 8 min
Teardown time
About 3 min
Table footprint
Medium

Campaign and continuity

Group continuity
Flexible
Resettable
Fully Resettable

Edition and product

Recommended edition
Wine Cellar – 25th Century Games English Edition (2025)
Language
English
Region
US
Availability
Current
Edition type
Standard
Current edition
Yes
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Andrew Stiles

Artists

1
Vincent Dutrait

Publishers

1
25th Century Games

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