12/21/2023
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Winter Christmas party in the gnome forest
Ede really was a funny little elf, or so he thought. His fellow elves didn't always think so, or rather never, which was because his pranks and jokes were usually very special but not very funny. This was also the case with the one he came up with for the annual winter Christmas party.
Because traditionally, every year shortly before Christmas there is a winter Christmas party in the gnome forest, which all the gnomes look forward to all year round. The most important thing at this party is the punch: it has to be plentiful, taste good and above all be effective, because it's cold in the winter forest and why do you think gnomes have red noses? There's not that much difference to Christmas celebrations for humans. So the ingredients are collected all year round: Fruit, spices and, of course, alcohol. The fruits are mainly plums, the gnome forest is just a good plum forest. Prunes, of course, but in the large cauldron over the fire, they become juicy again in no time at all.
In an unobserved moment, Ede threw a handful of herbs into the pot. The gnomes actually quite liked these herbs to flavor their food or when their little gnome tummies weren't feeling so well, but only a really funny gnome would have thought of throwing them into the punch. At least that's what Ede thought. After the elves had tasted the punch, they were of a different opinion.
But that wasn't what ultimately put Ede in his awkward position, because even if the punch tasted disgusting and made one or two of the gnomes retch, the effect was flawless. No, Ede's downfall was that he thought he had to sing a song as well. His singing voice was like his humor, rather weird. He accompanied himself on a rusty hurdy-gurdy and to be honest, it didn't sound much worse than his singing. Slowly, all the gnomes' eyes turned angrily towards him...
This year too, the gnomes had a fun gnome Christmas party in the gnome forest, with horrible punch and bad music, but that didn't dampen the mood. Only Ede looked gloomy from the edge of the clearing, where he was glued to a Christmas tree with resin.
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Christmas Wine actually has a lot of what makes a classically good Pineward forest: sweet, liqueur-like resins, rather dark wood, a little smoke and a tiny bit of green. It also has fruity, juicy notes, here mainly plum, like prunes on the nose, but not the hard ones, but the soft ones. The other fruits tend to stay in the background. It also has very spicy notes. I immediately believe nutmeg and clove, a little cinnamon could also be good. All of that would be fine with me. A spicy, fruity punch prepared in the dark forest over an open fire and not even indecently sweet.
But it also has a curry note, which is there from the start and unfortunately stays for a relatively long time. It's not like curry powder, but more like curry herb (Italian immortelle), an herb that I actually like, it goes well with fish, for example. I even had it in the garden once, but it didn't survive one winter. But: only an incredibly funny person would put it in the punch! If you look at the statements here, not every goblin perceives the curry herb and if I goblin didn't perceive it, the fragrance would certainly be an 8. For me, however, the fragrance only becomes beautiful in the base, where the herb has evaporated and what remains is a dark woody, resinous and spicy forest with minimal smoke, which I find much more bitter than the forest in Fanghorn II, for example, which is because I can hardly recognize any or no fir balsam here.
In this sense, even if it doesn't taste good, drink to the effect! Have a great Christmas!
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Here is the funny gnome Christmas song, expressly at your own risk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI
Because traditionally, every year shortly before Christmas there is a winter Christmas party in the gnome forest, which all the gnomes look forward to all year round. The most important thing at this party is the punch: it has to be plentiful, taste good and above all be effective, because it's cold in the winter forest and why do you think gnomes have red noses? There's not that much difference to Christmas celebrations for humans. So the ingredients are collected all year round: Fruit, spices and, of course, alcohol. The fruits are mainly plums, the gnome forest is just a good plum forest. Prunes, of course, but in the large cauldron over the fire, they become juicy again in no time at all.
In an unobserved moment, Ede threw a handful of herbs into the pot. The gnomes actually quite liked these herbs to flavor their food or when their little gnome tummies weren't feeling so well, but only a really funny gnome would have thought of throwing them into the punch. At least that's what Ede thought. After the elves had tasted the punch, they were of a different opinion.
But that wasn't what ultimately put Ede in his awkward position, because even if the punch tasted disgusting and made one or two of the gnomes retch, the effect was flawless. No, Ede's downfall was that he thought he had to sing a song as well. His singing voice was like his humor, rather weird. He accompanied himself on a rusty hurdy-gurdy and to be honest, it didn't sound much worse than his singing. Slowly, all the gnomes' eyes turned angrily towards him...
This year too, the gnomes had a fun gnome Christmas party in the gnome forest, with horrible punch and bad music, but that didn't dampen the mood. Only Ede looked gloomy from the edge of the clearing, where he was glued to a Christmas tree with resin.
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Christmas Wine actually has a lot of what makes a classically good Pineward forest: sweet, liqueur-like resins, rather dark wood, a little smoke and a tiny bit of green. It also has fruity, juicy notes, here mainly plum, like prunes on the nose, but not the hard ones, but the soft ones. The other fruits tend to stay in the background. It also has very spicy notes. I immediately believe nutmeg and clove, a little cinnamon could also be good. All of that would be fine with me. A spicy, fruity punch prepared in the dark forest over an open fire and not even indecently sweet.
But it also has a curry note, which is there from the start and unfortunately stays for a relatively long time. It's not like curry powder, but more like curry herb (Italian immortelle), an herb that I actually like, it goes well with fish, for example. I even had it in the garden once, but it didn't survive one winter. But: only an incredibly funny person would put it in the punch! If you look at the statements here, not every goblin perceives the curry herb and if I goblin didn't perceive it, the fragrance would certainly be an 8. For me, however, the fragrance only becomes beautiful in the base, where the herb has evaporated and what remains is a dark woody, resinous and spicy forest with minimal smoke, which I find much more bitter than the forest in Fanghorn II, for example, which is because I can hardly recognize any or no fir balsam here.
In this sense, even if it doesn't taste good, drink to the effect! Have a great Christmas!
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Here is the funny gnome Christmas song, expressly at your own risk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI
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