Best way to use lots of wine???

[Sherlock]

I'm on a map loaded with wine.

Isn't there some Social Policy or Wonder you can build or something that gives you a big bonus from wine plantations?

 

[GWashington]

There is a pantheon that gives +1 culture per plantation, and that's pretty good early on.


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[Thunder Bug]

2 pantheons effect wine:

Goddess of festivals gives 1 culture and 1 faith per wine and incense
Oral tradition gives 1 culture per plantation

Wine also gives bonuses on one of the faith bought religious buildings (can remember if it was monasteries or mosques)

 

[Halcyan2]

2 pantheons effect wine:

Goddess of festivals gives 1 culture and 1 faith per wine and incense
Oral tradition gives 1 culture per plantation

Wine also gives bonuses on one of the faith bought religious buildings (can remember if it was monasteries or mosques)

Monasteries.

Ideally you will choose Goddess of Festivals and Monasteries. If you are Byzantium, you may also want to choose Oral Tradition. Otherwise, hope another civ chooses Oral Tradition and you can gain that benefit from Religious Tolerance.

 

[joncnunn]

I'm on a map loaded with wine.

Isn't there some Social Policy or Wonder you can build or something that gives you a big bonus from wine plantations?

Such a start calls out for the Goddess of Festivals pantheon and Monasteries as your first follower belief.

As described is sometimes a candidate for attempting Sacred Sites induced Cultural victory as well. (Going for that Piety start instead of standard Tradition or Liberty and pick a second religious building follower belief)

 

[Crafty Bison]

Yup it's festivals and monasteries.

In terms of your game, it means religion is going to be very important, and you'll definitely want to found and enhance, spreading over all your cities with wine.

Early tech should go for calendar, and so SH may be an option if you're not on deity. Will help you get monasteries before anyone else does.

Things like GMoD may be important as well, and you'll want to get other beliefs to help you spend your faith, e.g double religious building and sacred sites, or holy warriors. If you do missionary spam with GMoD, then an interfaith dialogue / holy order combo maybe be a good way to spend the white points, especially if you got a neighbouring Ethiopia, which may otherwise put you off religion.

Piety is never mandatory, but the opener and cheaper religious stuff beliefs will be strong. I'd probably start tradition as normal (with piety opener 2nd/3rd SP if trouble getting a pantheon), then go up for cheaper monasteries and missionaries when you found which should be fairly close go when you finish tradition anyway. If you do bother filling out the rest of the tree, then Jesuit education could be very strong as a reformation, or the aforementioned sacred sites, or maybe religious fervour for great people, or untiy of the prophets to defend against AI prophet spam.

Ultimately, how the game goes depends on your situation, neighbours, your civ, and how the game goes, so there's no one VC for you. However, there are a great many ways to make the religious and cultural advantage you have work for you.

 

[qemist]

Piety is never mandatory, but the opener and cheaper religious stuff beliefs will be strong. I'd probably start tradition as normal (with piety opener 2nd/3rd SP if trouble getting a pantheon),

If I hit a culture hut and get my first SP before finishing Pottery, I'm sometimes tempted to take the Piety opener for the sake of building the shrine quicker. Is it worth it?

 

[Myth and Legend]

DOF everyone. Sell it for 240 per wine resource. DOW them one after the other. Keep selling to the rest. Keep one resource of wine for your troops so they are merry while killing your neighbors.

That, and goddess of festivals/monasteries as everyone else suggested.

 

[Crafty Bison]

If I hit a culture hut and get my first SP before finishing Pottery, I'm sometimes tempted to take the Piety opener for the sake of building the shrine quicker. Is it worth it?

Yeah, could be, because second policy is only 5 more culture than the first (25->30), and it'll help found a pantheon which will get more culture if there's wine in your cap's 1 or 2 rings. It's mostly before workers improve things, so you don't have to worry about sacrificing farm tiles to work the wine either.
One word of caution; scout-shrine-monument or something similar is a little building heavy, and you still haven't touched the granary, so if you have wheat/deer/bananas I'd take the granary and tradition opener, then take the piety opener once you've got that sorted and are ready to get the shrine out. Don't take the piety opener if you don't want to build the shrine immediately.

 

[Brew God]

I seldom get Wine. Is there Civ's which benefit with starts for Wine production? Or you just get lucky. They are located more on rivers since Vineyards needs water etc.

Also which Map choice do you find Wine to be more common.

Brew God

 

[Gamewizard]

My first GaK game I used Byzantium and rolled a sweet wine start with Uluru nearby. Goddess of festivals with monasteries, pagodas, and mosques...too bad there were no reformation beliefs yet.

 

[cpm4001]

Best way to use lots of wine? Drink it, of course!

Seriously though, as others have said, your best bet is probably to a) go for Goddess of Festivals as your Pantheon and Monasteries as a follower belief and b) play relatively peacefully (Diplo victory?) and sell as much of it as you can.

 

[reddishrecue]

Sell the spare wines. Once you make sure you sold all the extra wines you can count how much extra gold you've made. Ais will sometimes but luxuries like wine for 8 gpt. All you need is 1 luxury of the same type.

 

[myclan]

Monastery an Goddess of Festival are just terribly strong for a wine-rich start