Sometimes, you won’t be able to poison the cocaine. It actually shouldn’t be a huge problem, since his bodyguard sometimes won’t follow him in here. You should be able to stick him and dump him into the bin in back.
Grabbed version 1.2 from GoG and it doesn’t seem to let me poison his coke, but I too remember being able to do it (PS2). Perhaps it was changed or bugged in the later versions?
It always bugged me that the level looks nothing like the Colchagua Valley or even any sort of Chilean winegrowing region at all. No grapevines in sight and no cocoa plants either.
From them all, a Vintage Year wasn’t the best. It’s a house in the middle of a forest on a cliff. I have seen no Vines yet everyone is drinking wine. There’s is very little interactive in the main garden, even if you could poison drinks etc without getting caught. On top of it, 47 the only person on tour with a suit and tie. Wouldn’t they notice his absence quicker than others? For a game that’s tricky and often underestimated, that level had little to offer.
It’s either an oversight from the level designers or it was their choice not to design an unaccessible road through the mountains that leads to the villa just for eye candy. Game was released on the PS2 so they had to simplify things because of technical limitations.
Game literally explains it in the mission brief: The ICA booked him into a tour group that was heading to the estate from Santiago, he was bused up there with viti-tourists and day trippers.
Ah well that is because the level design vis-a-vis the visuals sucks. Also my biggest pet peeve is that there absolutely no grape vines to be seen and the geography isn’t even remotely close to the real life area.