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Strongwine is wine which has been fortified to be more potent.[1]
History
When construction ended on the Red Keep in 45 AC, King Maegor I Targaryen sent wagonloads of strongwine and sweetmeats to the castle's builders and workmen. After three days of celebration, Maegor the Cruel had his knights kill the workers so that the secrets of the Red Keep would never be revealed.[2]
Prince Aegon the Elder was fond of swilling ale and strongwine.[3] As King Aegon II, he began to drown his fears in strongwine during the Dance of the Dragons.[4]
After the Battle of the Honeywine, Lord Ormund Hightower feasted Prince Daeron Targaryen on aurochs and strongwine, and knighted him as Ser Daeron the Daring.[4]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
King Robert I Baratheon, drunk from multiple skins of wine, is mortally wounded while hunting a boar in the kingswood.[5]
A Clash of Kings
Queen Regent Cersei Lannister informs her brother Tyrion that Robert's squire, Lancel Lannister, had secretly given strongwine to the king during his hunt.[1] Lancel later defends himself to Tyrion, telling his cousin that he had been given the strongwine by the queen.[6]
Pears poached in strongwine are served in the harvest feast at Winterfell.[7]
A Storm of Swords
Ser Jaime Lannister avoids milk of the poppy and instead gulps strongwine while Qyburn treats the stump of his right arm.[8]
A Feast for Crows
Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne, enjoys a cup of sweet, heavy strongwine at the Water Gardens.[9]
Cersei drinks a cup of strongwine after meeting with Qyburn.[10]
A Dance with Dragons
Tyrion drinks strongwine from the Arbor while staying at Illyrio's manse in Pentos.[11]
Dornish strongwine is served at the feast welcoming Ser Balon Swann to Sunspear.[12]
Quotes
Tyrion: How did you kill Robert?
Cersei: He did that himself. All we did was help. When Lancel saw that Robert was going after boar, he gave him strongwine. His favorite sour red, but fortified, three times as potent as he was used to. The great stinking fool loved it. He could have stopped swilling it down anytime he cared to, but no, he drained one skin and told Lancel to fetch another. The boar did the rest.[1]
In the end, Tyrion chose a cask of strongwine marked as the private stock of Lord Runceford Redwyne, the grandfather of the present Lord of the Arbor. The taste of it was languorous and heady on the tongue, the color a purple so dark that it looked almost black in the dim-lit cellar. Tyrion filled a cup, and a flagon for good measure, and carried them up to the gardens to drink beneath those cherry trees he'd seen.[11]
—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
—thoughts of Areo Hotah
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 3, Tyrion I.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Sons of the Dragon.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - The Red Dragon and the Gold.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 47, Eddard XIII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 29, Tyrion VII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 21, Bran III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 31, Jaime IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 2, The Captain Of Guards.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 7, Cersei II.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 1, Tyrion I.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 38, The Watcher.