Talk:Borderlay
Love the wine info!
Suggestion on languages: swap Lalange for Elvish as a common language. Borderlay borders Bowcourt for much of its length and Lalange is by far the most common language there. Even in elvish influenced Bowcourt the elven language only averages around 10%.
Does anyone have arms for Borderlay?
Martin Dickson 12:19, 15 Aug 2006 (NZST)
Don't know of any coats of arms made for here. Perhaps a combination of mountains with grapes and river? Your artistic and heraldric knowledge is vastly superior to mine so if you have time and inclination please do so.
Chris Caulfield 12:33, 15 Aug 2006 (NZST)
- Carmenere, this 'noble' red wine of the Cabernet Sauvignon variety accounts for around 30% of the regions output
A noble wine is a desert wine where the grapes (usually white) were affected by botrytis (the noble rot) before being picked. This creates a great desert wine when it works but reduces the yield and can fail to ferment. If weather conditions go the wrong way then you can just lose most of the crop. And there are some strains of botrytis that just spoil the crop.
Similar to making ice wines which traditionally depend on just the right weather patterns, making noble wines was high risk for vitners, meaning that Ice and Noble desert wines were rare and prized.
Modern day wine making is a little more controlled, the right strains of botrytis are sprayed onto the grapes at the right time if the weather forecast and winemakers intuition agree, and the fermentation rarely fails. I believe that most Ice Wines are now made by picking the grapes then snap freezing them before crushing.
With Air and Ice mages making these wines could be made more predictable but they would still be rare and costly, and usually white. Probably the province of Elvish wine makers.
In short :-) - I think you should remove the word noble from this line.
Another point, the varieties are all based on real world (mostly french) wine regions and winemakers, in theory they would be based on Alusian regions for Alusian wines but it's much easier imagining the taste if we use our names for the varieties. An anacronism that's worth having.
btw Nitpicking aside, I love the wine info too.
Stephen 18:28, 15 Aug 2006 (NZST)
Language
The language section further down the page does not match the language details in the Sidebar. Do we know which one is accurate so we can update the sidebar and remove the section from the page? Mandos 11:33, 15 Aug 2007 (NZST)
- Chris added both sets of info (with Martin's input), I suggest that the sidebar (added second) accidently used the data from where-ever he found the original table. There is also the possibility that lots of people know Elvish, but hardly ever speak it ;-) --Errol 12:07, 15 Aug 2007 (NZST)
