One of four paintings by Alma-Tadema illustrating the four seasons. The scene depicts an offering to Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, taking place in a wine cellar. A female worshipper or bacchante dances as she pours the wine from a drinking vessel known as a rhyton into a bowl. A bronze image of Bacchus hangs in the top right of the image, the bacchante wears ivy and a leopard skin, symbols of the god.