Iliac Wines

The Iliac Bay is one of two key wine-producing regions of the continent, with the other being Colovia. Thus the residents of High Rock, particularly the Bayard polities of the Southern Coast, are principally wine-drinkers. Wine is traded regularly across both shores of the Iliac and further abroad, and in recent centuries a booming, if decentralized, business has emerged as a consequence. In the last century in particular, innovations in bottling, and cork seals have allowed for aged wines to enter the market for the first time. Within High Rock grape varieties are varied and diverse and are often not only regionally specific but localized to individual wineries - thus wines are usually categorized according to the Region they were produced in, which tend to be known for making specific kinds of wine.

Ilessan Hill Country
Shalgora is the dominant wine-making region in High Rock, producing over 70% of the wine in the province. Part of this is that the Ilessan Hill-Country is prime for grape-growing, with the hillsides serving to promote the growth of different varieties of grapes at different altitudes. As such - the variety of Shalgoran wines is substantial. Much of the common swill served in taverns is Shalgoran, but there are plenty of fine wines produced by the Region as well, making it one of the least descriptive of Regional categories.

Ilessan and Daenian wine also hail from the hill-country but these regional centres of wine production have becomes synonymous with specific kinds of wine. Ilessan with higher quality red wines sold at a price point that means they can be enjoyed by the Merchant class but rarely drank by nobility and Daenian with a small number of respectable wineries known for their innovation, playing with fermentation to create sparkling wines and carving out a niche in pink wines. Daenian’s have gained in popularity due to their sudden rarity, a consequence of the landscape being severely devastated by the Miracle. While previously a curiosity they have quickly become a way of signifying wealth and taste.

Broader Iliac
Outside of the Hill Country, the rainy barony of Tulanais is known historically for bitter, dry wines - but the estates here have been moving into the Daenian niche in the last few years - trying to capitalize on the latter’s sudden surge in popularity and prestige. Menevians meanwhile are know for their flavour profiles - sweet, fruity, and nearly always containing floral notes, a wine from Menevia is respectable but considered outside the scope of interest for the wider Breton aristocracy. Wayrestis are known for enjoying spiced wines, in the style preferred by much of Hammerfell. Finally, the Direnni produce Balfieran Pearlwines - tending towards dry and of the highest quality. Pearlwines have by longstanding tradition been a staple of Nobility - and each season's batch are reserved well in advance by noble families across the Bay via Rites of Purchase, which themselves are sold and treasured as family investments.

Unicorporated:

Marivon Heartwine - Wine from the castle state of Marivon.