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*The [[Arbor]] is known for making the best wine in [[Westeros]]. | *The [[Arbor]] is known for making the best wine in [[Westeros]]. | ||
− | *It is said that across the [[Jade Sea]] they make a golden vintage so fine that one sip makes all other wines taste like vinegar. | + | *It is said that across the [[Jade Sea]] they make a golden vintage so fine that one sip makes all other wines taste like vinegar. {{ref|aCoK|40}} |
*The [[Lazy Eel]] is winesink in [[White Harbour ]] is renowned for offering the vilest wine in White Harbor. | *The [[Lazy Eel]] is winesink in [[White Harbour ]] is renowned for offering the vilest wine in White Harbor. | ||
*[[Claw Isle]]’s castle is reputedly stocked with more wines that a man could drink in a 100 years.{{Ref|aSoS|36}} | *[[Claw Isle]]’s castle is reputedly stocked with more wines that a man could drink in a 100 years.{{Ref|aSoS|36}} | ||
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*Boiling wine is sometimes poured into wounds to disinfect them. | *Boiling wine is sometimes poured into wounds to disinfect them. | ||
*During her wedding ceremony to [[Khal Drogo]] [[Daenerys Targaryen]] sits in her wedding silks with no one to talk to, nursing a cup of honeyed wine, talking silently to herself. | *During her wedding ceremony to [[Khal Drogo]] [[Daenerys Targaryen]] sits in her wedding silks with no one to talk to, nursing a cup of honeyed wine, talking silently to herself. | ||
+ | *[[Sandor Clegane]] tells [[Sansa Stark]] that all a man needs is a flagon of sour red, dark as blood. Or a woman. | ||
*After her visit to the [[Pureborn]] in the [[Hall of a Thousand Thrones]] [[Daenerys]] and [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] drink ruby red-wine from matching goblets of jade and gold. The wine tastes of pomegranates and hot summer days. | *After her visit to the [[Pureborn]] in the [[Hall of a Thousand Thrones]] [[Daenerys]] and [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] drink ruby red-wine from matching goblets of jade and gold. The wine tastes of pomegranates and hot summer days. | ||
*[[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] tries to entreat [[Daenerys]] to journey around [[Yi Ti]] to search for the dreaming city of poets, to sip the wine of wisdom from a dead man’s skull. | *[[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] tries to entreat [[Daenerys]] to journey around [[Yi Ti]] to search for the dreaming city of poets, to sip the wine of wisdom from a dead man’s skull. |
Revision as of 00:39, 5 November 2012
Wine is comparable to real life wine. It is an alcoholic beverage made with fermented fruit juice, mainly from grapes. Wine is a very popular beverage. There are many vintages of wine in Westeros and beyond. Some vintages are vastly superior to others.
Contents
Vintages of wine
Westeros:
- Arbor gold
- Strongwine
- sweet reds from the Reach
- sour reds from Dorne
- strongwine from Dorne: as dark as blood and as sweet as vengence
Essos and beyond:
- pale Pentoshi ambers
- the green nectar of Myr
- Myrish firewine
- Ghiscari wine: made with small yellow grapes, inferior vintage, leaves a metallic aftertaste
- Volantene wine: sweet
- spice wine
- wine of the warlocks (shade of the evening)
- dreamwine, flavoured with strange spices: from Qarth
- apricot wine
- a golden vintage from the Jade Sea[1]
- Selhorys pale green wine
- Wine of Courage: drunk exclusively by Unsullied
- Lys makes a red wine and a white wine.
References in the books
A Song of Ice and Fire
- The Arbor is known for making the best wine in Westeros.
- It is said that across the Jade Sea they make a golden vintage so fine that one sip makes all other wines taste like vinegar. [1]
- The Lazy Eel is winesink in White Harbour is renowned for offering the vilest wine in White Harbor.
- Claw Isle’s castle is reputedly stocked with more wines that a man could drink in a 100 years.[2]
- Prince Aegon Targaryen tells Tyrion that child he was swapped with was some tanner's son sold to Lord Varys for a jug of Arbor gold. The babe’s father had other sons but had never tasted Arbor gold.[3]
- Wine from Slaver's Bay is thin and pale.
- Wine is often stored in skins and casks.
- It is sometimes watered down, for children or at certain times of day.
- Boiling wine is sometimes poured into wounds to disinfect them.
- During her wedding ceremony to Khal Drogo Daenerys Targaryen sits in her wedding silks with no one to talk to, nursing a cup of honeyed wine, talking silently to herself.
- Sandor Clegane tells Sansa Stark that all a man needs is a flagon of sour red, dark as blood. Or a woman.
- After her visit to the Pureborn in the Hall of a Thousand Thrones Daenerys and Xaro Xhoan Daxos drink ruby red-wine from matching goblets of jade and gold. The wine tastes of pomegranates and hot summer days.
- Xaro Xhoan Daxos tries to entreat Daenerys to journey around Yi Ti to search for the dreaming city of poets, to sip the wine of wisdom from a dead man’s skull.
- During his brief stay at Illyrio Mopatis’s mance in Pentos Tyrion notes that there is enough wine in the mance cellar to keep him drunk for a hundred years. The cellar includes a cask of strongwine marked as the private stock of Lord Runceford Redwyne, the grandfather of the present Lord of the Arbor - the taste of it is languorous and heady on the tongue, the colour purple so dark it looks almost black in the dim-lit cellar.
- Illyrio tells Tyrion that when he and Varys were young men in Pentos the older thieves were fools who thought no further than turning a night’s plunder into wine. [4]
- While journeying in Illyrio’s litter Tyrion drinks blackberry wine so sweet that it draws more flies then honey.
- Daenerys nibbles on flatbread, olives, figs and cheese and sips from a cup of watered wine during her audience in the hall of the Great Pyramid. The wine leaves a tart metallic aftertaste in her mouth. [5]
- Elder Brother told Brienne that the Hound drank to drown his pain in a sea of wine. [6]
- When Kevan Lannister tells Cersei Lannister that she is as unfit a mother as she is as a ruler she throws a cup of red wine in his face.
- Penny throws a cup of gold wine Tyrion’s face aboard the Selaesori Qhoran when she is still blames him for the death of her brother Oppo.
- The Pureborn are notorious for offering poisoned wine to those they consider dangerous[1]
- Bloodbeard has a prodigious appetite for wine.
- Lady Nymeria Sand's lips are wine-red.
- Seamen are the worst gossips in the world when the wine is flowing.
- At the Wall the black brothers drink hot mulled wine, spiced with cloves and nutmeg.
- Lord Torghen Flint journeys to the Wall to attend the wedding of Alys Karstark and Sigorn the Magnar of Thenn and enjoys the southern wine at the feast.
- Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun takes a gigantic liking to wine after first tasting it at Castle Black.
- Hizdahr zo Loraq has developed a taste for Arbor gold and sweet red.
Quotes
The world is full of wine.[7]
References and Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 40, Daenerys III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 36, Davos IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 22, Tyrion VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 5, Tyrion II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 2, Daenerys I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 31, Brienne VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 1, Tyrion I.