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[sythyry]

My Dinner With Esory, IIg [7 Thory 4261]

In retrospect, I probably should have gotten drunk.

I didn't, though. I tried a few drops of this and a few drops of that. Since it is a Rassimel's collection, I must take notes in an organized way:

Brandy	Flavor	My Opinion
Pfeltoise	Orange and cardamom	The perfect aftershock to pickled leech and apricot soup. Not worth eating pickled leech and apricot soup to acquire.
Daq D'ouenff	Pelterment and honey	Nasty bitter stuff, even with the honey, but it does clear the palate. It also turns your eyes quite orange for some minutes, which is an ordinary property of pelterment. The palate-cleansing effect is not worth the orange eyes. The orange-eyes effect is not worth the bitterness. The brandy is not worth the price.
Sgwarnog o Fryn	Bilberry	Delicious. I suppose after Daq D'ouenff anything would be delicious, but I had another drop after the Ulvark and it was still delicious.
I can't remember	something floral	Perhaps the high point of the evening. Or perhaps not.
Marque Datal	Raisin and chissowary	Esory seemed particularly eager to have me try this, and it was fairly nice, but she didn't like it very much.
I can't remember	Raisin and chulle	It tasted expensive. Not particularly good, just expensive.
Mondre-du-Txverrion	Date and persimmon	A thoroughly forgettable beverage, whose main claim to noteworthiness is that it comes in a ceramic pot with a lead talisman on the front, worked with mysterious archaic runes of magical significance. Esory and I spent a third of an hour looking them up. They say, "We're pretty good at Durudor magic, aren't we?", but in a considerably more arrogant way.
Ulvark	Mushroom and Honey	Delicious.
Amorivasche	Musk and Honeydew	Reputed to be an aphrodesiac. No magical properties in any case. Expensive, but not very tasty.
Tilpastrienne	jersany	Not bad -- very well-blended -- but the flavor of jersany was rather lost. The price of jersany was, I gather, not rather lost.

Esory was rather less moderate, perhaps in surprise at getting such easy access to her mother's beloved collection. For each drop I tasted, it was a spoonful she tasted. And at one point wound up turning her head -- I was on her shoulder, as you recall -- and kissing me with a degree of familiarity that I rarely managed to get from Seeks-Orren even at our best of times. I had to nip her nose at that, to be sure!

And after that, I had a servant pour her into bed, and flew home intending to go to bed myself. Which was of course impossible.

Comments

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

The Amorivasche must have been working!

How does a drink manage to taste expensive without tasting good, I wonder?

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I don't know much about brandy, but a chair can look expensive without looking good, so why couldn't brandy taste expensive without tasting good? It's production values, basically.

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

How does a drink manage to taste expensive without tasting good, I wonder?

In our world it's difficult now, but when shipping was more expensive, say over 150 years ago, one could simply add too much of an expensive ingredient. Consider a medieval spice wine with way too much black pepper in it.

[blither.livejournal.com]

The David monster I'm acquainted with, would heartily approve of your notetaking.

You do not want Esory kissing you? =)

[rowyn]

Poor Esory. I guess she's doomed to be as unlucky in love as you are. :)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Or, perhaps, as unlucky in drunken revelry in her mother's brandy room as I am!