A Wine Estate is an economic building in Empire: Total War that is built on a wine-resource area.
In-game picture of Wine Estate
Description[]
A wine estate represents a substantial investment in wines, land and time. Wine is lovingly produced, carefully aged, and sold on at a premium.
The entire process is still subject to the vagaries of weather, soil and time. It is quite possible for an estate to produce a truly great wine one year and a foul one the next because, while standards were improving, there are still a great many variables that are only dimly understood.
In some parts of the world, a great wine estate is a prestigious possession, over and above it's economic value.
And the value could be great indeed: the 18th Century was a time of prodigious boozing in Europe, Georgian Englishmen, for example, apparently had bottomless gullets even by contemporary standards, as the available water was not always fit to drink. Contrary to the popular belief of the time, excessive drinking was not the cause of gout (an agonizing inflammation of the joints) only a contributory factor. Gout is triggered by a high-protein diet (as favored by the wealthier classes of the period), and the liberal use of toxic lead compounds to sweeten the wine probably did little to help matters!
Cost[]
- Level 2
- 3 Turns to Build
- 1500 Coin
Abilities[]
- Requires Wineries, Advanced Irrigation
- -1 Happiness from Industrialisation (Lower Classes)
- Enhances National Prestige
- +0.6% to population Growth
- Reduces the chance of Food Shortages
- +X Coins to Region Wealth (Depends on the Yield of the Land)