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- Type Download
- SKU WINETST
- Age Range 21 to Adult
- Minimum # of Players 5 Suspects
- Max Players (Main Game) 8 Suspects
- Max # Available (Sold Separately) 62: 32 Suspects, 30Team Roles (1 Team)
- Difficulty Rating Moderate, 5/10
- Roles Co-Ed or All-Female by Skipping Optional Male Roles (See Host Character Lists)
- Interactive Extras Wine Tasting Guide* Wine Tasting Cards * Wine-ictionary
- Game Duration 2 - 4 Hours Average (Flexible)
- Setting At Ivanna Katenka’s private wine-tasting soirée in the picturesque town of Gladerock, where an elegant evening of fine wine and good company takes a deadly turn.
- Game Format Murder & Thievery | Guided Clue Mingling | 4 rounds
- Vibe & Content Notes Ancient Artifacts, Wine & Scandals* Clean Cozy Sophistication
- Publication Date 2007. Last Revised: 2025
An elegant wine-tasting murder mystery party game set at Ivanna Katenka’s private soirée in picturesque Gladerock. This sophisticated mystery is packed with fine wine, volatile personalities, strained friendships, ancient artifacts, scandal, thievery, hidden secrets, and murder.
Murder Mystery Party Game Synopsis:
Ivanna Katenka, an enigmatic airport security clerk with a flair for the extraordinary, is hosting an exclusive wine-tasting party at her cozy home in the picturesque town of Gladerock. Known for her impeccable taste in wine and talent for creating an inviting atmosphere, Ivanna’s gatherings are usually unforgettable.
This time, however, whispers of scandal and intrigue have rippled through Ivanna’s circle of friends. Strained relationships, fiery personalities, suspicious behavior, and carefully guarded secrets threaten to disrupt what was intended to be a sophisticated evening of fine wine and good company.
Despite the lingering tension, Ivanna is determined to bring everyone together. She hopes the clink of glasses and an elegant evening of wine tasting will help mend fractured friendships—but secrets from the past may soon rise to the surface. You have received an invitation to the soirée, and this is where your story begins.
Host a Large Group Game:
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Main Game: 8 unique suspect characters
- Designed for 5–8 players.
- 5 characters are required, and 3 are optional.
- The co-ed game may also be played with an all-female group by omitting the optional male roles.
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Expansion Pack #1: 8 additional unique suspect characters
- Characters #9–16.
- Sold separately.
- Includes 4 female and 4 male roles.
- Expands the game to 16 unique suspect characters.
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Expansion Pack #2: 8 additional unique suspect characters
- Characters #17–24.
- Sold separately.
- Includes 4 female, 1 male, and 3 gender-flexible roles.
- Designed to be added after Expansion Pack #1.
- Expands the game to 24 unique suspect characters.
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Expansion Pack #3: 8 additional unique suspect characters
- Characters #25–32.
- Sold separately.
- Includes 8 gender-flexible roles.
- 6 characters are required when using the required-character group from this pack, and 2 are optional.
- Designed to be added after Expansion Packs #1 and #2.
- Expands the game to 32 unique suspect characters.
- Includes the optional expandable wine-taster team led by Corky Tannins.
- Corky Tannins becomes a required character when the expandable team is used.
All 32 suspect roles are unique characters. The expandable wine-taster team uses duplicate, non-suspect roles and may include up to 30 players, allowing the complete game to accommodate up to 62 players.
This is the instant download version of the game. Simply download, print, and prepare everything you need to play, with no shipping fees or delivery wait.
PDF files included:
- Host Instructions
- Printable Game Materials
- Solution
- Optional Extras, such as the free invitation
For the boxed kit, also called the Party Pack, use the link provided on the product page.
Printing Tips
For the best results, open and print the files using Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe.com. Other PDF viewers may alter fonts, spacing, colors, page sizing, or interactive features.
- Download the PDF files to your computer and note where you save them before opening or printing.
- Select Actual Size or 100% Scale unless the instructions specify otherwise.
- Do not select Fit to Page, as this may resize cards, labels, or other game materials.
- Confirm that the paper size is set to US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches.
- Print one test page before printing the complete game.
- Use standard printer paper for any worksheets or investigation sheets.
- Use heavier paper for invitations, clue cards, and other materials that will be handled during the game.
- Print in color when possible for the intended appearance.
- Do not select double-sided printing.
- Allow ink to dry completely before cutting, folding, or assembling the materials.
Printer settings and results may vary by printer.
We had a great time and appreciated the game setup, instructions, and content. Only advice to others is that players share their “secrets” (info only the character is supposed to know) with at least one other player. We kept all secrets to ourselves and, to solve it in the end, we started sharing the secrets with each other and only then could we figure it out. Overall, great mystery game and we definitely want to do another one!
It was easy to organise with all the very detailed documents and it went really smoothly - we had a laugh!!
Game was a lot of fun however the characters were a bit complicated.
We had a GREAT time playing the characters. Loved the pregame items. It got everyone in the mood. The collection of characters was fun and our group were great actors so they really embraced it. Everyone did the accents and the variety of characters was awesome! For the game itself, the story was a rather fantastical and details pretty thin, also the character professions were not well understood by the writers e.g. computer programmer is a different job to tech support but the game used them interchangeably (who cares really, but a guest brought it up and it's details that make something really excel!). Our group is a relatively academic bunch so we craved more detail to pour over and found the murderer to be disappointingly obvious. I spent ages trying to work out which game to pick, even called the help line, but didn't get much guidance. I should have gone for a hard one perhaps? Or maybe some are more tested than others and have more details or more red herrings to discard? Either way, these are finer points that would have made it exceptional (and helped justify the heft package price - incidentally a $80 mark up for printing and envelop stuffing seemed pretty absurd, but maybe given it's a small company labor costs to do that are just that high?!), but as it was, it was really fun, and that's the aim! So while it wasn't exactly as I'd hoped in terms of the complexity of the story, it was an awesome night and we'd love to play one again.
We had a GREAT time playing the characters. Loved the pregame items. It got everyone in the mood. The collection of characters was fun and our group were great actors so they really embraced it. Everyone did the accents and the variety of characters was awesome! For the game itself, the story was a rather fantastical and details pretty thin, also the character professions were not well understood by the writers e.g. computer programmer is a different job to tech support but the game used them interchangeably (who cares really, but a guest brought it up and it's details that make something really excel!). Our group is a relatively academic bunch so we craved more detail to pour over and found the murderer to be disappointingly obvious. I spent ages trying to work out which game to pick, even called the help line, but didn't get much guidance. I should have gone for a hard one perhaps? Or maybe some are more tested than others and have more details or more red herrings to discard? Either way, these are finer points that would have made it exceptional (and helped justify the heft package price - incidentally a $80 mark up for printing and envelop stuffing seemed pretty absurd, but maybe given it's a small company labor costs to do that are just that high?!), but as it was, it was really fun, and that's the aim! So while it wasn't exactly as I'd hoped in terms of the complexity of the story, it was an awesome night and we'd love to play one again.