Chapter 53 McKinway Wines
"What is this?" The giant condensed from the frost leaned over and looked at the bottle in Catherine's hand curiously: "Is this wine?"
"Yes." Catherine nodded with a smile: "It's a good wine, specially brought from human society."
"Don't lie to me." Blue hand touched his bare head with a cautious expression on his face: "Don't all wine be filled with round barrels? This one in your hand is not a barrel, is it really wine inside?"
"Of course it's wine, and it's a good wine." Catherine explained patiently: "General wines are indeed stored in wooden barrels when brewing, but when they are ready to be stored after brewing, they cannot be stored in wooden barrels for a long time. They must be stored separately in these crystal bottles. Because wooden barrels have much more breathable properties than crystal bottles, they need a close-closed environment to prevent the aroma of the wine from spreading out. Therefore, no one will use wooden barrels for a long time to pack good wines."
"I didn't understand a word." Lan Shu expressed his opinion very directly, but he believed Catherine's statement and muttered, "It's too little to drink such a small bottle in one or two."
Panis also saw the bottle that Catherine took out, and his eyes immediately changed. The crystal bottle in Catherine's hand was dark brown, and the dark light could not be passed through. The bottle looked quite simple, without any decoration or pattern on it. The brown bottle mouth was stuffed into it by a cork, and no matter how the bottle shaking, there would be no wine spilling out. Just like this bottle, normally thrown on the side of the road, no one would pay attention to it. Compared to the wine bottles with exquisite packaging and unique shapes in the tavern, the one in Catherine's hand was terrible, but Panis could see the secret hidden in the bottle at a glance.
Among the few top wine producing areas on the Yara Continent, such as Carlis and McKinway, there are some ancient wineries with a history of thousands of years. These wineries produce not many wines every year. This low yield has also led to a limited number of wines they deliver to the market every year. They are often snatched away as soon as they are on the market. However, these people who are rushing to buy are often unaware that the best batches of wines made by the best raw materials and the best workers in these wineries will not be sold on the market at all. They will only be supplied to specific old customers. They cannot buy them if they are rich or powerful. Only families or individuals with deep historical backgrounds are qualified to buy them.
This top-notch wine is often used in this kind of rough crystal bottle without decoration. The reason is very simple. No matter how good the bottle is, it cannot be worthy of the bright red wine inside. Other wines are filled in gorgeous bottles because the wine itself needs the bottle to increase the value, and the wine Catherine takes out is the type that does not need to use the appearance to enhance the fake. Their mere existence is enough to illustrate all the problems.
"McKinway?" Panis took the bottle of wine from Catherine before the Blue Hand, carefully stroked the surface of the bottle, and said with a smacking tongue: "And it is actually the best batch. This bottle alone costs at least 50,000 gold coins, you are willing to take it out, and why do you carry it with you? Shouldn't this kind of thing be worshipped as a family heirloom?"
"I really want to hit you." Catherine gave Panis a blank look and explained, "This is left by my grandfather when he was alive. It's really a family heirloom. I took it out this time, thinking of celebrating Vivian in a few days. This is the most important thing, so I took it with me secretly, hehe. But it's good to use it here. Maybe I won't even have a chance to celebrate by then, right, Vivian."
Vivian didn't say anything. She just pinched Catherine's hand hard and kept the words of thanks in her heart. It was enough to make Catherine willing to take the initiative to take out such a valuable relic to celebrate, and not show any heartache at all, which was enough to represent the importance of this celebration in her heart. Feeling the power from her hands, Catherine turned her head and smiled at Vivian, patting her hand to show comfort.
"It's really such a good wine?" Lanshu also heard Panis's evaluation of the bottle of wine. He was full of expectations and reached out to him and said excitedly: "Give it to me quickly, give it to me quickly, I want to taste it well. At that time, you and the black-haired dwarf were always using this kind of thing called wine to seduce me, and they made me wait for so long. Now I can finally know what the wine tastes."
"Hey, blue hand." Panis's eyes rolled, his expression looked like a bad guy who was about to abduct a child. His face was filled with smirks, and he rubbed his hands with a bottle of wine and said, "Dear alien friends, let's discuss whether something is good. This is a very important thing. You must think carefully before answering."
"You're enough." Catherine took the bottle back from Panis's armpit and handed it to the Frost Giant's hand. She rolled her eyes and said, "Don't think I don't know what you want to do. It's just that you are wrong, but you can't bear to give the wine to others. It's too bad to want to get away with it in other ways."
In fact, Catherine knew in her heart that Panis made such efforts to take care of her mood, but being able to get the help of Ice Crystal would have a great impact on her subsequent actions. It is worth paying the price of this bottle of wine now. And the most important thing was that she vaguely guessed the identity of the black-haired dwarf in Blue Hand’s mouth. Since it was her last wish that she had not fulfilled, she would make up for it herself. Catherine felt that when she did this, she seemed to be approaching the figure who was only imagined in her imagination in her heart, and seemed to see the sight in her dream that spanned endless time and space.
"Wait." Seeing the giant smiling and trying to reach out to receive the bottle, Panis stopped him loudly and said, "Shrink a little more, otherwise you won't be allowed to drink it. This size is too exaggerated now, and it's a waste of this bottle of wine."
"It's going to shrink again, it's so annoying." Lan Hand found that his wish was about to be satisfied, so he stopped crying. He tilted his head and thought about it. He suddenly grabbed his thigh and broke it hard. After a crisp sound, he broke his thigh, which was nearly two meters long, and he looked down with one leg, and stood his legs in front of him. When Lan Hand's big hand separated from his legs, his huge body stopped. After a strange friction sound came from inside, he suddenly lay down on the ice field, as if he was dead. However, his thighs that he had broken down moved, jumping around on the ground, and suddenly burst into a ball of ice fog. When he appeared in front of everyone, he turned into an ice man more than two meters high.
"It's OK." Lan Hand moved his body and muttered impatiently: "It's so troublesome. I'll have to shrink several times when I drink some wine. Should I hold another ceremony to commemorate it?"
"Okay, OK. This is perfect, you can wait a moment." Catherine smiled and nodded, looked at the bottle in her hand, sighed in her heart, and handed the bottle to Vivian. Vivian was stunned. She took the bottle handed over by Catherine, took it in her hand for a while, and then handed it back to her. It was obvious that when Vivian handed over, the wine in the bottle began to turn into liquid again, no longer just a piece of hard ice like before. Catherine used a bottle opener to pull out the cork at the bottle. When the cork was pulled out, a faint fragrance of wine floated out from the mouth of the bottle and instantly floated into everyone's nose.
As soon as he smelled this fragrance, Catherine felt intoxicated. Lightness and mellowness were originally two contradictory words, but the two contradictory words were magically unified in this wine fragrance. The light but mellow fragrance of wine almost made people notice the fruity aroma. This is the smell that the highest-grade wine should have. For a moment, Catherine even had the urge to regret. Giving such wine to others personally is simply a torture for her who loves wine.
"It's so tempting." Beside Catherine, Pennis half-closed his eyes and inhaled hard, and said in a nearly moaning voice: "I have only smelled such a charming aroma of wine three times in my life. It's great. Smelling this fragrance is like returning to McKinway in the deep mountains and seeing the vineyard full of countless fruits."
"Have you been to McKinway Village?" Catherine was surprised. In order to divert her urge to repent, she turned her head and asked, "It is said that it is a very closed mountain town, and few outsiders are allowed to enter."
"Well, I did go in." Panis seemed to think of something again, his expression became a little weird, and he lost his interest in making trouble. He sighed softly, and suddenly he became very serious. He took the bottle of wine from Catherine's hand: "Blue hand, my friend, this is the wine we brought to you. Sorry, for some reasons, I failed to fulfill my promise to you in time. However, after many years, the promise was finally fulfilled. I hope you can accept this gift and hope you can forgive me for being late for many years. On behalf of that black-haired friend, I apologize to you for the mistakes of our two."
Panis's sudden change in attitude frightened Catherine, but after a moment of thinking, he understood what he had thought of to make such a change. He couldn't help but sigh and pressed his hand on his shoulder to comfort him. This sudden bitterness cannot be persuaded, and he can only use the silent support of "We are standing by you" to express encouragement.
Feeling the power of the female knight coming from her shoulders, Panis gently patted the hand on her shoulder, turned around and smiled, took out a cup and poured it into the wine. The wine was red, as bright as blood, and clear as water. It slowly poured into the cup along the edge of the cup, and slowly rotated in the cup, making the intoxicating fragrance more intense.
"You don't have a sense of smell, and it's probably hard to smell this fragrance." Panis handed over the cup in his hand and explained patiently: "And drinking this wine, from the selection of the cup to the speed of the entrance, and even the posture of the body, has very strict rules and etiquette. Everything is to enjoy the gift of Bax to the mortals better. But for you, these complicated steps are of no significance, so I won't explain it in detail to you. But you can't drink it directly in the bottle like you drink other things. I'm really sorry for this bottle of wine, so you should drink it with cups one by one."
"Okay, I know." The shrinking giant blue hand, no, now he can only say that he is an ordinary person with a tall size. After more than a hundred years of anticipation, he can finally satisfy his wish. For this reason, he grinned happily, his strong body twisting constantly, staring at the cup in Panis's hand like a child looking forward to a gift, and kept laughing out loud: "It must be very delicious. After waiting for so long, I can finally drink it."
"I hope you like it." Panis always felt strange hidden in his serious smile, and handed the cup to the blue hands that were particularly blue: "Please enjoy it, this is the gift you deserve."
"Yeah." Lan Hand excitedly focused his head, took the cup from Panis's hand, and curiously observed the bright red wine from the mouth of the cup. The wine was clear and transparent, and there was no trace of impurities. After looking over and over for a long time, Lan Hand finally raised the cup with satisfaction and drank most of the glass of wine in one sip.
Everyone was curious, so everyone was observing curiously. This was the first time we saw ice crystals, and the first time we saw elemental creatures eating like humans. We were all looking forward to the reaction of the ice crystal in front of us. In the eyes of everyone, Lan hand poured a large glass of wine, closed his eyes and savored it for a while, suddenly opened his eyes and said dissatisfiedly: "What, this is what you have been bragging to me at the beginning? Apart from a little bit of irritating spicy food, there is no difference between chewing ice cubes. What's so good about this? I have been looking forward to it for so many years. If I don't drink it, you can drink it yourself."
"Huh?" Seeing the blue hand's disappointed look, Catherine exclaimed in surprise and said strangely: "No, this kind of wine should taste very good. This is the most expensive wine in the human world."
"So you humans are so strange." Lan Hand was not angry, but found that the things you had been looking forward to for many years were not as good as you imagined, and was a little disappointed, so he whispered: "It's obviously like ice cubes, and it has to say that they taste good, and it also describes all kinds of tempting flavors. I don't understand what you are thinking."
"Then do you still drink?" Panis squeezed his eyes at Catherine in secret: "If you don't drink, I'll put it away."
"Put it away, I don't want to drink this kind of thing." Lanshou said in a muffled voice: "I want to eat your roasted food."
"Hey." Catherine leaned into Pannis's ear and asked in the least voice: "Is this what you did in the wine?"
"No." Panis also lay down in Catherine's ear and pressed her ear. "I just remembered a few minutes ago that their taste was much slower than ours. I could only give them strong wine. This kind of wine is no different from water for them."
Chapter completed!