Well, this bounced earlier so I'm trying to resend it as it still seems
vaguely relevant. (sorry for the preponderance of >>>'s).
> >
> > > > Peloria: wine
> > >
> > > really? in RW most wine regions are coastal, esp. in ancient
history.
> > > I'm not much of a wine expert, but wouldn't Esrolia have a
better
> > > wine climate?
> >
> > Probably, Esrolia certainly does produce (and export) wine, as does
> > the odd spot in for example Sartar. Pelorian wines we seem to be stuck
> > with, regardless. It has warmer summers than you'd expect from its
> > location; not sure other climatological factors necessarily make 100%
> > sense, but there you go.
>
> I'm not so sure that Esrolia would produce good wine - good grain growing
> areas are not usually brilliant for wine - the vines are best when they
> struggle a bit. The best area for wine in Maniria might be up against the
> Stormwalk mountains in hendrikiland and these famous vines might be the
> origional rootstocks for the famous cleawine of the Colymar.
>
> <As an aside somebody - Joerg, Alex? - made a good case for Clearwine
> being a kind of Brandy which doesn't require the grapes be all that great.
> Given the climate and situation of Sartar, all those bitterly cold
> winters, I would tend to go with that myself.>
>
> I can see Peloria actually being a good wine producing region - you get
> very good wines from irrigated vines and the pelorians excel in
> irrigation. The mix of maize (a summer rain crop) and vines (a winter rain
> crop) doesn't feel good though so these would probably be different areas
> of peloria - possibly the vines would grow furthur north - possibly near
> the sweet sea.
>
> Frankly this is where the Kallikos expeditions are screwing things up -
> Vines like a little cold and rain in the winter so the warmer winters are
> messing with the wines. I can imagine that they are getting more of a
> worse quality wine these days... A number of old Carmanian houses are
> cursing the warmer winters and those who built their fortunes on wine
> are going downhill. There must be scenario material there - some old
> Carmanian house falling in with the Spolites who promise to bring back the
> colder winters and rescue their vines.
>
> Yours,
> Yak
> (I knew that working on a wine farm would be useful for more than liver
> damage someday ;)
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Dave Pearton
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That it carries too far, when I say
That it frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea,
And dines on the following day.
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