Three years after Beer & Bread, today we present the successor in our 2-person series:
Wine & Cheese!
In beautiful Burgundy, you both each run a traditional farm, on
where both wine and cheese are produced. And even though you share vineyards, pastures, and labor as neighbors, you are still in direct contact.
Competition with each other.
For two years, you must prove that you can master the demanding tasks of wine and cheese production. Procuring the ingredients requires considerable skill, as workers are sent out in pairs to the plots in spring and brought back in autumn. Good timing is also essential, not only to produce and mature the wine and cheese to the best of their quality, but also to sell them at the right moment. To win, however, you must above all pay attention to...
Maintaining a balance between wine and cheese is crucial. At the end of the two years, each farm will only be rewarded for the product that yielded the fewest coins.
"Wine & Cheese" is the spiritual successor to "Beer & Bread," but even though there are some similarities, Wine & Cheese is not just Beer & Bread in a new guise. It's more complex, and the game mechanics are different as well. This challenging two-player game will be released in spring 2026.
Author Scott Almes comes from Pennsylvania in the USA and has already done many
He designed successful games. Among other things, his work includes the
The two-player game "Beer & Bread", the "Tiny Epic" series, and the
Dice game "Martian Dice". When he's not busy developing games,
He enjoys reading and writing, and taking quiet walks.
companies and in doing so, one or the other brewery (and
to pay a visit (sometimes also to a wine cellar).
The illustrations in this case come from two artists. Michael Menzel, as with Beer & Bread, designed the cover. Due to time constraints, Alexander Jung then took over the game components – and the two have done an excellent job of passing the baton back and forth.
Michael Menzel was born in 1975 and lives with his
Family in the Lower Rhine region. He has worked as an illustrator for [company name] since 2004.
Board games. He illustrated, among other things, "Thurn & Taxis".
(Game of the Year 2006), "The Pillars of the Earth" (1st place at the German
Games Prize 2007), “Stone Age Junior” (Children’s Game of the Year 2016) and
"The Legends of Andor" (Kennerspiel des Jahres 2013). For the latter
He also won the Graf Ludo for the best family game graphics.
Alexander Young was born in 1975 in the Palatinate and is named after his
He is now studying in Hamburg with his wife and two children
He settled in Lüneburg. Here he works in a small attic room on
All sorts of animal illustrations for games and puzzles.
For over 20 years he has been designing titles such as "Bora Bora" (2013),
the “Beasty Bar” series (2014-2024), or the remake of “Saboteur”
(2025)
Wine & Cheese will be shown for the first time at the Nuremberg Toy Fair and will be available in stores from April 2026.
