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We have just finished tasting the normal wine and the strawberry mint wine named “Breeze” which was pretty okay in flavor. But there were way more liquors to drink today as well! There was the pure mint drink and then there was the pine tree drink, which had the same scent as those pines they drop, which are super hard, I don’t know how they made wine out of that but people in these conditions are very desperate for a drink, so they just make liquor out of anything they can find.
The mint wine had a beautiful dark green color, and when served in a transparent glass cup, one could see how beautiful the green color was before the light of the candles, it was a beautiful liquor, and thanks to the Breeze we just drank, I can already expect it to be an interesting taste.
We slowly drank a small cup of it this time, we knew it had a strong flavor due to being mint, so we enjoyed it a bit slowly this time, Emeraldine was the one that liked mint wine the most out of all of us, so she was already serving herself a second cup after drinking the first one in a single go.
“Ahhh… Hey, this one is good.” I said.
The taste was… to be expected, like the Breeze but without the strawberry part, it was pure mint, so strongly flavored that for a few seconds it felt as if it froze my mouth due to how much mint there was in this wine, I felt a bit surprised and chuckled a bit.
“Wow this is indeed strong…” Said Lucifer. “I almost got drunk… Well, now that I am alive, I could get drunk… Hic…”
“It has a lot of flavor, yeah…” Said Partner. “It just that mint is not my thing. But look at Emeraldine, she’s loving it.”
“Ahhhh…! I love it… Heheh… Hic…” Said Emeraldine, hugging the bottle of wine as she drank her third cup in a single go, licking her lips mischievously.
“Okay enough of that for now, Emeraldine, we have to drink the other wine as well.” I said. “Don’t drink all the mint wine either! I want to bring some back home…”
“Okaaaay~” Said Emeraldine, she was weak to alcohol and got drunk pretty fast, she was already drunk, in fact! Seriously, this woman is something else.
I can see why people call Alcohol a poison now, it really is! Look what it did to my Emeraldine, now she became an addict of mint wine! I guess I know what to gift her for her birthday though, a nice mint wine and some chocolate with min, perhaps… Maybe mint toothpaste as well? Perhaps mint ice cream with chocolate chips… And that’s all the mint I can think of for now.
I took a cup of the next wine made out of pine trees, I had never seen this before, but I am sure that there should be something like this back on Earth, I mean there is wine of everything in Earth, they’re all insane for wine, they would make it out of anything and sell it and people would buy it, get drunk, and want more. Everyone just drank alcohol to get drunk anyway, the flavor was always secondary.
I drank the cup of brown wine without hesitating, and then suddenly felt as if I was surrounded by a forest of pine trees… the flavor and aroma were mystic in nature, I could tell why this one was also a people’s favorite and why it was also god damn expensive! Wow…
When I opened my eyes again, I felt like I had gone through a small journey there. This wine is… mystical, what the heck? I never thought pine tree wine would be this good! I don’t feel drunk or anything, but the flavor and aroma alone made me hallucinate or something, for real, I am a ghost! Maybe this has some holy water on it or something?
“This one is good, very good…” I said. “I never thought I would find such a good wine made out of pine tree fruit.”
“Me neither, it felt like I walked directly into a forest of pine trees and was surrounded by their aroma.” Said Lucifer. “This one is very good indeed.”
“Hmm… Not bad.” Said Partner. “Its actually okay. But I still prefer the red wine we drank from the duchy, that duchess girl gave it to you, that one… that one is good.”
“Oh you mean the one that the girl from the duchy gave to us? I guess so, that one is very expensive and only drank by aristocracy though…” I sighed. “You won’t find something like that in a tavern.”
“Geehh…” Sighed Partner. “That wine raised my standards way too much now.”
“It really did, dear.” I said.
“Hmm… It is pretty good! I think this is my second favorite of this batch!” Said Emeraldine.
“Well, now, time for the white wine…” I said.
I served myself a bit of that one and drank it. It was… pretty okay, white wine is well known for being rather good with seafood, I had drank a bit before but I felt like it was too strongly flavored and I didn’t liked it, now that I drank it as a ghost, it was pretty okay, nothing too much, nothing too bad either, it was an okay liquor, nothing like the mint and pine tree one, I also prefer the Breeze over this one as well.
“White Wine is always a good choice.” Said Lucifer. “I wish we had our food here already, liquor always tastes better for me with food.”
“I agree, I am starving! I want my blood wiener!” Said Partner.
“You know that Blood Wiener really sounds weird…” I sighed.
“Hmmm… This white wine is ok.” Said Emeraldine. “But I prefer Mint over it anytime! Heheheh… Hic…” Emeraldine giggled a bit.
“Here’s your food!” And then, the lady finally came with food, we were starving here… Actually, not me, I am a ghost.
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