Where to find Shadowbanish Wine in Oblivion Remastered and what to do with it – Destructoid

If you’ve encountered Shadowbanish Wine while exploring, you might be tempted to take a swig, but there’s a more valuable use for the bottles. Shadowbanish Wine is tied to a quest that offers a lucrative reward. But first, players need to find the quest giver and a stockpile of the wine.

Oblivion Remastered packs the fourth The Elder Scrolls game into a modern experience, allowing players to return to or experience Cyrodil for the first time. Among the countless quests and pursuits, it might be easy for some smaller tasks to fall by the wayside. Even more so if you don’t know you’re dealing with items that belong to a quest. This is the case with Shadowbanish Wine, an item you can find long before you have any quest telling you to fetch some.

However, it’s well worth the trouble to seek out this valuable vintage and the quest it’s tied to. After all, it’s practically along the same path players will travel while tackling the main story quest.

A Venerable Vintage

While the quest for the Shadowbanish Wine will start as soon as players have found some, it won’t tell players anything more than to keep an eye out for someone interested in the bottles. Alternatively, if you haven’t encountered the item, you can go directly to the quest giver to kick things off.

The individual interested in Shadowbanish Wine is in the small settlement of Weye, just across the bridge from the Imperial City’s Chestnut Handy Stables. The Wawnet Inn’s keeper, Nerussa, will offer you some wine when you first greet her, and asking for more information on the topic opens up the request.

Nerussa wants to add Shadowbanish Wine to her collection, hoping to get six bottles of the good stuff. Of course, she’ll compensate players for their work and even offer some incentive for additional bottles collected beyond the six. Nerussa tells players how the wine can be found in various fort ruins across the continent but doesn’t get more specific.

Fort-ified wine

Eight forts have been confirmed to hold Shadowbanish Wine. That said, the bottles are not one-time loot. If you wanted to, you could just farm one location repeatedly for as much Shadowbanish Wine as you want. Of course, the criteria for resetting an instance (including loot) is to load out of the area and then return no sooner than 72 hours of in-game time later.

While it’s easy enough to cozy up to a single fort and its Shadowbanish Wine, several options are single-room locales that can be cleared quickly. Bottles will always appear in sets of two and only in unlocked chests within the fort.

Fort Carmala

This fort is between Chorral and Skingrad, just above the settlement of Hackdirt. Vampires protect the crumbling ruins, with the Shadowbanish Wine chest in the final chamber.

Fort Dirich

Fort Dirich is also between Chorral and Skingrad, though it’s closer to the Skingrad side. It’s just north of the Shrine of Sanguine. Undead inhabit this fort, with some pesky ghosts likely to appear, which can only be hurt by magic or silver weapons.

Fort Vlastarus

More vampires reside in Fort Vlastarus, but it’s another quick, one-chamber locale. It’s located directly east of Skingrad, under the “G” in The Gold Road on the map.

Fort Magia

Fort Magia is to the east of the Imperial City (directly east of the Imperial City Arboretum). This larger fort has three main sections, and the chest containing the Shadowbanish Wine will be in the deepest part. Undead and ghosts have overrun the fort.

Fort Scinia

To the east of Cheydinhal, next to the “V” in The Valus Mountains, rests Fort Scinia. It’s medium-sized and filled with a mix of bandits and undead foes.

Fort Aurus

This fort is northeast of Bravil, directly east of the “N” in Niben Bay on the map. Fort Aurus is packed with spellcasters and summoners, but it’s a quick crawl otherwise.

Fort Irony

Players can find Fort Irony straight down from Fort Aurus and Fort Grief, southeast of Bravil. It’s the only Shadowbanish fort filled with goblins, but it’s a small and fast delve.

Fort Grief

Fort Grief is the only fort listed that isn’t immediately available for players to explore. The fort is located directly south of Fort Aurus, on a small island in the Niben Bay. It’s locked until players start the “Caught in the Hunt” quest. Once opened, it’ll be available for return trips. 

A reward worth drinking to

Nerussa will offer a whopping 1,000 gold for your troubles in exchange for six bottles of Shadowbanish Wine. Beyond that, players can still rake in a respectable 100 gold per additional bottle brought to the innkeeper.

Considering the wine reappears within the forts every three days, a short jaunt across Cyrodil to each Shadowbanish Wine-spawning location can prove quite lucrative if made into a regular activity.