The storeroom held aged unmixed wine reserved for Odysseus’s return

Evidence

And there, standing in close ranks against the wall, were jars of seasoned, mellow wine, holding the drink unmixed inside them, fit for a god, waiting the day Odysseus, worn by hardship, might come home again. — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 654

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the Greek custom of mixing wine with water — unmixed wine being a boast of strength — and with Odysseus’s wine given to the Cyclops.