How to complete the A Fine Vintage challenge in Hitman: World of Assassination

The A Fine Vintage challenge was added to Hitman World of Assassination with the game’s summer 2024 roadmap that kicked off with The Disruptor Elusive Target. It tasks you with pulling off a pretty difficult run in the game’s Mendoza location for a fairly powerful reward.

To complete the A Fine Vintage challenge in Hitman WoA, you must kill the two targets in Mendoza, Don Archibald Yates and Tamara Vidal, using a fiber wire melee weapon. Following those successful kills, you must escape the location using the boat exit and do it all without ever changing your disguise. Fellow Hitman WoA fans will already know roughly what they must do to pull this off, but I’ve got a route that makes light work of it. So you can sit back and relax as you wait for your targets to come to you.

How to complete the A Fine Vintage challenge in Hitman: WoA

You need three things for the A Fine Vintage challenge in Hitman WoA. First, select the Tasting Room starting location because it gives you the waiter disguise, which is all you’ll need to get to your targets. Second, you absolutely must equip Agent 47 with a fiber wire melee weapon like the IO Elite S2VP Earphones, and you’ll need a distraction such as the Greedy Little Coin.

Your first move after starting the mission should be to run from the wine bar up to the villa. There’s a staircase with guards who need to frisk you before you can pass, so dump any weapons they’ll detect before the frisking. See above for a map reference for the stairs to the villa.

Once you’re past the guards, run up to the villa along the veranda and climb up onto the roof using a drainpipe. Run along the roof and get inside Don Yates’ room, which he should be sitting on the balcony of when you arrive.

Wait for Yates and his partner to finish their conversation in the corner of the room closest to the door to the balcony. When they come in, his partner will enter first, but neither will notice you here. Wait for Yates to enter, then garrote him with your fiber wire and hide him in the wardrobe in this room.

Once his body is hidden, head out and return to the party the way you came. From here, you need to track down Vidal, who will be wandering around the party with Diana. She’s also got two bodyguards with her, but these are easy to take out, as you’ll see.

Wait for Vidal and Diana to approach the position shown in the screenshot above and map reference below. When Vidal and Diana stop here to chat, you can subdue the guard who leans against the lavender plater and hide his body automatically. If you’re quick, you can leave, pick up the weapon he drops, and then use a coin to draw over the second guard and do the same to him.

This removes both guards from your second target. All you need to do now is wait for her to return to this spot and repeat the trick you used on the second guard. Draw her over with a coin, wait for her to turn around, and then garrotte her. You can dump her body in the lavender without anyone noticing you.

The final part of this challenge is to exit on the boat. So, head out of the party and over to the parking lot, which is Mendoza’s main starting location. You need to get past the two guards at the entrance to the lavender fields. To do this, crouch and sneak past the guard on the left-hand side when he turns the other way and rush into the lavender to hide.

You must sneak through the lavender fields to reach the boathouse on the water beyond. There should be an exit icon on-screen for you to follow as you go. The guards won’t spot you if you hide in the lavender, so move between bushes to cross paths and take your time.

To get the boat key, you need to go around the back of the boathouse and vault in through the window. It’s hanging on the wall. Then, use the radio to distract one of the guards, and draw them into the boathouse, and vault back out.

Finally, dodge or take out the second guard on the jetty, then hop into the boat and exit the mission. Provided you don’t change your disguise once and follow this run, you’ll unlock the Pinot Noir item. This is actually a pretty powerful item that you can equip with a poison and combine with the Tasting Room starting location to set up an early Silent Assassin kill for Vidal at the very start of future missions.