Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 3^rd March 2026 at the Horse and Jockey Pub.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food again, so those that are eating will be arriving from around 6.30pm.

This week, the “Feature Game” will be the new Bordeaux Expansion for one of the group’s favourite games, Viticulture (base game rules, review and how to play video; expansion rules and review).  With just a new board, this new expansion incudes an engine building element by changing the actions and adding upgrade options.  It also makes a number of other small tweaks that effectively provide a faster start to the game (for example, players begin with income and only one field making the fairly standard strategy of selling land early in the game obsolete).

– Image from stonemaiergames.com

And speaking of wine…

Jeff was relaxing with his girlfriend, sharing a bottle of wine, when she said, “I love you so much. I don’t know how I could ever live without you.”

Jeff was surprised, but very pleased—she’d never said anything like that to him before.  In disbelief, he replied, “Is that you or the wine talking?

She answered, “It’s me talking to the wine…”