Wine

Like all rare resources on land, Wine can be gathered by sending a Merchant from the Market to the resource location. Wine provides the following benefits:

• +10 Food gather rate
• +10 Knowledge gather rate
• Cost of unit upgrades reduced by 20%
  • The cost reduction affects all unit upgrades at the Barracks, Stable, Siege Factory, Dock, Airbase and Missile Silo, but it has no effect on the upgrade cost for Generals and Spies at the Forts.
  • The cost reduction is cumulative with bonuses granted from resources like Salt, Horses, or Sulphur.

The gather rate of rare resources can be increased in various ways, as described in the main article. Note that Knowledge is not gathered before the Classical Age, but the Greeks may gather Knowledge from the beginning, making an early exploitation of Wine more useful.

v • d • e Resources in Rise of Nations Basic Resources Food • Timber • Wealth • Metal • Knowledge • Oil Rare Resources Aluminum • Amber • Bananas • Beaver Pelts • Bison • Cattle • Citrus • Coal • Coffee • Copper • Cotton • Diamonds • Dye • Fish • Furs • Gems • Gold • Gypsum • Horses • Huskies • Incense • Iron Ore • Maize • Marble • Obsidian • Olive Oil • Papyrus • Peacocks • Relics • Rubber • Rum • Salmon • Salt • Silk • Silver • Spice • Sugar • Sulphur • Titanium • Tobacco • Uranium • Whales • Wine • Wool Items in italics are exclusive to the campaigns on Thrones and Patriots