Wine was an alcoholic beverage popular throughout the Realms. Most wines were poured into wooden casks for transport. The casks were then tapped by innkeepers or other consumers. Some monasteries experimented with bottling alcoholic beverages such as wines and some merchants were known to bottle wine from casks.[3]
Notable Vintages
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Red WinesEdit
- Arabellan Dry: A very dry wine best served at cellar temperatures.[1]
- Berduskan Dark: A dark, heavy, sweet, and burning wine, high in alcohol content.[1]
- Blood Wine: A heavy deep red wine from Aglarond, rumored to come from vines possessed by the spirits of cruel dead.[1]
- Elverquisst: Ruby-colored, "distilled from sunshine and rare summer fruits", and flecked with gold.
- Fire Wine: A thick and dark wine made in the Old Empires.[1]
- Lathander's red: A red wine brewed by the priests of Lathander in Dagger Falls.[4]
- Rootweal: A red wine from the forests of the Yuirwood in Aglarond.[5]
- Saerloonian Special Vat: A pale red wine that left a tingle on the tongue.[1]
- Utterdark: An extremely dark wine from Cormyr.
- Westgate Ruby: A bold, slightly acidic wine.[1]
White WinesEdit
- Moktessa: A wine that could only be found in Dambrath.[6]
- Ondal's wine: A batch of white or golden wines brewed by Ondal prior to the Spellplague. The wine was infused with wild magic, which released uncontrolled destructive magic when a bottle was opened.[7]
- Saerloonian Glowfire: A pale luminescent wine with a fresh taste.[1]
- Saerloonian Topaz: An amber-colored wine with a nutty taste.[1]
- Stonesulder wine: A yellow wine produced by crushing berries and vines found in the Abyss.[8]
- Undermountain Alurlyath: A rare sweet white wine.[1]
Fortified WinesEdit
- Heart of Wine: A fortified wine found in Zakhara, made more potent by evaporating or freezing away the water as part of the aging process.[9]
- Zzar: A fortified sherry wine popular in Waterdeep.[10]
Mulled, Spiced, And Sweetened WinesEdit
- Clarry: A blend of sweetened table wines.[1]
- Jhuild: Also known as Rashemi firewine, a popular beverage in Rashemen.[11]
- Spiced wine: With spices from Calimshan and Tethyr. Also had medicinal value.[1]
- Tethyrian tanagluth: A red spiced wine from Cormyr.[12]
Wines of Unspecified TypeEdit
- Arrhenish: A sweet Cormyran wine.[13]
- Dragondew: A wine consumed in Cormyr.[14]
- Firedrake: A wine drunk in Cormyr.[15]
- Manycherries wine: A wine popular in Waterdeep.[16]
- Mint wine : A wine drunk in Cormyr.[citation needed]
Other WinesEdit
- Evermead: An extremely fine elven mead that was aged for hundreds of years.[1]
- Gorgondy wine: A gnomish wine made of water from magical pools.[17]
- Mead: A delicate and slightly sweet wine from Neverwinter made of slowly fermented honey.[1]
- Tashlutan Amberthroat: An exotic light cider, enjoyed mostly by nobles.[citation needed]
- Winter Wine: A sweet purplish-blue vintage made from crushed frozen grapes.[1]
Notable VintnersEdit
- Arlho's Fine Flasks: Brewer and vintner located in Ashabenford.[18]
- House Foxmantle: A family of Sembian nobles.[19]
- Monastery of the Yellow Rose: Known for their blueberry wine.[20]
- Ondal: A wizard who lived in the Heartlands prior to the spellplague.[7]
- Oraundas Haeltower: Tethyrian winemaker noted for his table wines sold throughout the Sword Coast.[3]
Notable Wine MerchantsEdit
Notable Figures Associated with WineEdit
- Saint Dionysus: An Ilmaterian saint known as the patron saint of wine.[22]
AppendixEdit
NotesEdit
- ↑ These prices refer to "table wine" in Aurora's Catalogue.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 Jeff Grubb, Julia Martin, Steven E. Schend et al (1992). Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue. (TSR, Inc), pp. 129–131. ISBN 0-5607-6327-2.
- ↑ Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford (2014). Player's Handbook 5th edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 158. ISBN 978-0-7869-6560-1.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ed Greenwood (January 2012). “Eye on the Realms: A Surprising Vintage”. In Steve Winter ed. Dragon #407 (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 42–45.
- ↑ Wolfgang Baur (October 1993). Doom of Daggerdale. (TSR, Inc.), p. 21. ISBN 978-1560766544.
- ↑ Bruce R. Cordell (October 2007). Stardeep. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 133–134. ISBN 978-0-7869-4338-8.
- ↑ Tom Prusa (1993). The Shining South. (TSR, Inc), p. 29. ISBN 1-56076-595-X.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Ed Greenwood (June 2010). “Eye on the Realms: Ondal's Stand”. In Steve Winter ed. Dungeon #179 (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 65–67.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (March 2013). “Eye on the Realms: Abyssal Trade Goods: Not a Bad Thing”. In Christopher Perkins ed. Dragon #421 (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 26–37.
- ↑ Jeff Grubb and Andria Hayday (April 1992). Arabian Adventures. (TSR, Inc), p. 93. ISBN 978-1560763581.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (January 1993). Volo's Guide to Waterdeep. (TSR, Inc.), p. 193. ISBN 1-56076-335-3.
- ↑ Anthony Pryor (1995). Spellbound (Campaign Guide). (TSR, Inc), p. 80. ISBN 978-0786901395.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb (April 1998). Cormyr: A Novel (Paperback). (Wizards of the Coast), p. 173. ISBN ISBN 0-7869-0710-X.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (June 2011). Elminster Must Die (Mass Market Paperback). (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 978-0786957996.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb (April 1998). Cormyr: A Novel (Paperback). (Wizards of the Coast), p. 313. ISBN ISBN 0-7869-0710-X.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb (April 1998). Cormyr: A Novel (Paperback). (Wizards of the Coast), p. 345. ISBN ISBN 0-7869-0710-X.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (2004). Silverfall. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 98. ISBN 0-7869-3572-3.
- ↑ Lisa Smedman (June 2008). Ascendancy of the Last. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 166. ISBN 978-0-7869-4864-2.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (January 1996). Volo's Guide to the Dalelands. (TSR, Inc), p. 182. ISBN 0-7869-0406-2.
- ↑ Various (February 2007). The Halls of Stormweather. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 978-0-7869-4244-2.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 25. ISBN 0-7869-1836-5.
- ↑ Anne Gray McCready et al. (March 1994). Elves of Evermeet. (TSR, Inc), p. 44. ISBN 1-5607-6829-0.
- ↑ Julia Martin, Eric L. Boyd (March 1996). Faiths & Avatars. (TSR, Inc), p. 76. ISBN 978-0786903849.
