Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“So this was made here? I ask because I had wine before,but it was a hurried home-brew compared to this.”“Yeah, some of the casks on some of the outer islands arepretty fermented ,” Yellelle told her, “especially back in thesedays.”Yellelle and Koruki discussed the wine in Minoan forawhile, Yellelle told her, “you probably don’t need to sit thruany more than ‘it was a great year for Kotsifali’ out of that.”“Probably not, unless I was a historian of winemaking andit corresponds to a year on Earth.”“1648bc,” Yellelle told her once again.Koruki wanted to know about wine in America. Avaexplained, “It comes in by rail car from California. For therich it comes in by air from Australia and Chile. There’s localbottling plants and big payoffs to cheat on the federal taxes.The federal government hasn’t been able to collect any taxesin generations, but the Judges collect the taxes anyway andkeep it for themselves. They divide the take with the ownersof the biggest corporations in their county. Since they’ve beenin Laurentia they have to be a little less blatant about it.“There’s quite a bit of wine grown in Laurentia, especiallyNew York, New Jersey and New England. The averageperson can sometimes get their hands on some of that. It’sbetter than the home brew around here but nowhere near asgood as this. In spite of that, it is something the average guymight serve his girlfriend on the day he proposes marriage.”That got them started on the whole subject of religious430