Our Gemara on Amud Beis discusses the principle that a person may bring his offering today and the accompanying libations from now until even ten days later. We have a teaching from Gemara Berachos (14b):

“Anyone who recites Shema without tefillin, it is as if… he has offered a burnt-offering without a meal-offering or a peace-offering without libations. Despite the fact that he fulfilled his obligation, his offering is incomplete.”

The Pesach Einayim (ibid) asks: Why is this a problem, since we learned in our Gemara that one does not have to bring the libations concurrent with the sacrifice?

One answer he offers is that without the wine, one cannot perform the Levitic song that goes along with the sacrifice. So there is a qualitative loss, much as reciting Shema without tefillin may be technically fulfilling the obligation, but is subject to a qualitative loss without enacting the acceptance of the yoke of Heaven through symbolic action.

The Torah (Bereishis 9:7) describes an interlude whereby Noach planted a vineyard. The narrative, plus the commentary, point in the direction of criticism of Noach for indulging in getting high.

Perhaps Noach was traumatized from the utter destruction that he witnessed and sought to cope with those feelings, albeit this was not necessarily an appropriate form of self-medication, which could be the lesson itself. Drink to celebrate and rejoice, not to deal with sorrow.

Sefer Daf Al Daf offers an idea based on our Gemara. Noach meant well and wanted to complete his sacrifice by offering libations, which is allowed at a later date.

I suggest that we can use this peshat to develop another answer to the Pesach Einayim’s question. The Gemara in Berachos was obliquely referencing Noach’s sin. He had good intentions, but his acceptance of the yoke of Heaven was not complete, and his desires led him astray. So too, if one negligently recites Shema without donning tefillin, he is not in the correct state of acceptance of the yoke of Heaven and may not succeed in his spiritual endeavor, just as Noach’s attempt fell short.