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===A Song of Ice and Fire===
 
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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.       {{ref|aCoK|40}}   
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*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.  
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*[[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.

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:

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]

Tyrion Lannister

I mean to sail to Westeros and drink the wine of vengeance from the skull of the Usurper.[1]

- Daenerys Targaryen

References and Notes