Wine Wars: The Deus in the Machina – Witcher 3: Blood and Wine Quest

This guide is a walkthrough of a side quest in the Witcher 3: Blood and Wine DLC. The guide is composed of a map, map legend, and walkthrough to show readers exactly where to go and what to do to complete the quest.

Map Legend

1 – Guarded Treasure
2 – Guarded Treasure
3 – Tesham Mutna Warehouse
4 – Plegmund’s Bridge

Background

You’ll trigger this quest by working through both Wine Wars: Coronata and Wine Wars: Vermentino. During Wine Wars: Coronata, you’ll find Orders on Elegant Stationery (#1). During Wine Wars: Vermentino, you’ll find a Heavy Brass Key and a Letter on Elegant Stationery (#2). Reading the two elegant documents will trigger the quest.

Walkthrough

The Orders on Elegant Stationery will mention that the archespore seedlings used to sabotage Coronata and Vermentino are coming from a hatchery at Tesham Mutna. When you head over there (#3), you’ll find a locked warehouse under a cottage. The Heavy Brass Key will get you through the door.

Inside the warehouse, you’ll encounter a single level 42 archespore. After defeating it, you’ll discover that there are over a dozen archespore seedlings being cultivated. If you burn them using Igni, then you’ll earn 100 xp. Near the seedlings in a chest, you’ll find a Stocktaking Report. It’ll prove that Count Crespi, the deceased owner of Belgaard Vineyard, was behind the sabotage.

When you show the Stocktaking Report to the ducal clerk at Plegmund’s Bridge (#4), he’ll decide that Coronata and Vermentino should operate Belgaard Vineyard together. However, if you have not yet fixed all of the problems from Wine Wars: Coronata and Wine Wars: Vermentino, then the game will combine those two quests together into Wine Wars: Consorting. Once you’ve completed that quest (if necessary), Coronata and Vermentino will take over Belgaard Vineyard, but they’ll discover that there are problems over there as well. This will trigger the quest Wine Wars: Belgaard (Part 2).

You’ll earn 250 xp for completing this quest.