Overview
Vintner’s Contract: Rivecalme Storehouse is a short Blood and Wine secondary quest in Sansretour Valley, Toussaint, recommended for level 37. A vintner has acquired a property that came with some very unpleasant tenants: a pack of ghouls, led by an alghoul.
Getting the contract
The Rivecalme storehouse stands just west of the Dulcinea Windmill. The wine merchant is waiting outside. Talk to him, haggle if you like, and agree to clear the place out.
The investigation
There is nothing to track. Step inside and Geralt immediately comments on the smell, which is your cue to draw your silver sword. The ghouls and their alghoul leader are inside. Kill them all, then walk back out to the merchant.
Fighting ghouls and the alghoul
This is a pack fight, and the alghoul is the one to worry about. As long as it is alive, it screams to stun you and whips the ghouls into a frenzy. The usual advice is to put the leader down first, though thinning out a couple of ghouls to stop yourself getting surrounded is fine too.
- Coat your silver sword with necrophage oil.
- When the alghoul’s spines rise, cast Axii to calm it down. Hitting the spines only hurts you.
- Keep Quen up so attacks from behind and its knockdown lunges don’t land cleanly.
- Fight at the edge of the pack, not in the middle, and finish wounded ghouls before they frenzy and heal.
Full tactics are on our Alghoul page.
Rewards
The merchant pays 150 crowns and you get 100 XP. The XP drops if Geralt is above level 49.
Ghouls also turn up elsewhere in Toussaint, for example in Contract: Bovine Blues. For more of the same kind of work, try Vintner’s Contract: Dun Tynne Hillside or Vintner’s Contract: Cleaning Those Hard-to-Reach Places.
