Mushroom wine

Mushroom wine was wine made from fermented mushrooms.
==Description==
It was generally a purplish or amber color. It was produced by crushing and fermenting mushrooms in water for several months before straining and storing it. The length of the fermentation had implications for both the quality and the alcohol content of the final product. Mushroom wine was kept in barrels or clay jugs.
==Reputation==
It was often described as being an acquired taste.
It was a popular drink among drow.
==Availability==
Mushroom wine could be found in the Underdark. It was a major export of the beholder-run city of Zokir and the gold dwarf hold of Wildstar was infamous for its potent brew.
The village of Amphail in northwest Faerûn had a local vintage in the mid-to-late 14 century DR, where it was served at the Stag-Horned Flagon. Described as an acquired taste by Volo, their mushroom wine had a spicy and somewhat sweet flavor and was deep purple in color. Depending on demand and availability, the cost per tallglass could range from seven copper pieces to four gold pieces.
The village of Snowmantle in Daggerdale was known for its production and sale of mushroom wine, which was fermented in a facility on the south side of town. It was made from special mushrooms that grew only in the Border Forest around Snowmantle, notably to the town's west, north, and east.
The rock gnomes of Gnomengarde made a mushroom wine from special purple mushrooms that grew at the base of a waterfall around which their settlement was built. In the late 15 century DR, Tervaround was in charge of making it.
The drow inhabitants of Svartalfheim in the Nidavellir layer of Ysgard were known for producing an excellent mushroom wine.
==History==
In the aptly named , persistent damp weather and widespread disease across north Faerûn created the ideal conditions for widespread and supernatural mushroom growth, which led to a short-term fad for mushroom food products including mushroom wine.
After the Zhentarim occupied the town of Snowmantle in the mid-to-late 14 century DR, they identified mushroom wine as a potentially valuable trade good. As of the , this had led them to preserve the parts of the Border Forest where the necessary mushrooms grew and to spare the life of the last living person who knew the secret of its production, Willard Gooseford.
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===See Also===
*Drow green wine
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