Belgaard Vineyard

Belgaard is one of the world-renowned vineyards of Toussaint, lying near Beauclair, south of the city’s Metinna Gate. In Blood and Wine it is the big prize in the duchy’s wine business: a famous estate without an owner, which the ducal Office of Internal Revenue puts up for sale.

Its past is less genteel than its reputation. According to local lore, a former owner fell into debt with a loan shark, who sold the debt on to bandits. When he could not pay, they murdered him along with everyone on the estate and used Belgaard as a base for hijacking wine transports, until an alchemist laced a shipment passing through their territory with ricin. The poisoned bandits were later buried at Mère-Lachaiselongue Cemetery.

In The Witcher 3

Belgaard is the centre of the Wine Wars side quests. In Wine Wars: Belgaard, Geralt attends the sale at Plegmund’s Bridge, where the clerk turns down both bidders, Liam de Coronata and Matilda de Vermentino, because their own vineyards are in such a sorry state. Each of them blames the other and hires Geralt to sort things out, which leads to Wine Wars: Coronata and Wine Wars: Vermentino.

Once Belgaard has been awarded to Coronata, Vermentino or both of them together, the second part of the quest sends Geralt to the estate itself to clear out its problems:

• an infestation of endregas and their nest in the vines,
• giant centipedes guarding a treasure, and another centipede nest,
• a master blacksmith held by bandits,
• a slyzard at an abandoned site nearby.

When the work is done, the banners over the estate change to show the new owner: Matilda’s red and yellow checkerboard, Liam’s blue wolf on yellow, or a flag split between the two. If Geralt has also finished Wine Wars: The Deus in the Machina, the owners invite him back a few days later to name a new wine after him, choosing between Butcher of Blaviken, Geralt of Rivia and White Wolf, and once he owns Corvo Bianco they send bottles there too.

Good to know

• Master blacksmith: the blacksmith Geralt rescues from the bandits sets up shop at Belgaard afterwards, which makes the vineyard one of the places to craft high-end gear in Toussaint.
• Belgaard has its own signpost. Find it on the Toussaint interactive map.