Ka-la-na

"After the meal I tasted the drink, which might not inappropriately be described as an almost incandescent wine, bright, dry, and powerful. I learned later it was called Ka-la-na." Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, pages 22 - 23 "...drops of a red, winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree" Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 68 "Yes! It would be the one that would be red with Ka-la-na..." Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 79 "...kicking from my path a Ka-la-na container, splashing the fermented red liquid across the stone surface" Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 79 "I went to his locker near the mat and got out his Ka-la-na flask; taking a long draught myself and then shoving it into his hands. He drained the flask in one drink and wiped his hand across his beard, stained with the red juice of the fermented drink." Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 168 "He clasped my hands, and, to my wonder, the little scribe was crying. And then, in his joy, he turned to Talena and in gracious salute lifted the symbolic cup of Ka-la-na wine to her beauty." Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 217 "I wondered why there was only water to drink, and none of the fermented beverages of Gor, such as Paga, Ka-la-na wine or Kal-da." Book 3, Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45 ~才 "He signaled to a boy who carried a skin of Ka-la-na wine over his shoulder. He took the skin of wine from the boy and bit out the horn plug; he then, with the wineskin on his shoulder, held back the head of Elizabeth Cardwell with one hand and with the other shoved the bone nozzle of the skin between her teeth; he tipped the skin and the girl, half choking, swallowed wine, some of the red fluid ran from her mouth and over her body." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 39 - 40 ~才 " 'Give him Ka-la-na wine,' prompted Elizabeth. Aphris got up and fetched not a skin, but a bottle, of wine, Ka-la-na wine, from the Ka-la-na orchards of great Ar itself. She also brought a black, red-trimmed wine crater from the isle of Cos. 'May I serve you?' she asked. Kamchak's eyes glinted. 'Yes' he said. She poured wine into the crater and replaced the bottle. Kamchak had watched her hands very carefully. She had had to break the seal on the bottle to open it. The crater had been upside down when she had picked it up. If she had poisoned the wine she had certainly done so deftly. Then she knelt before him in the position of the Pleasure Slave and, head down, arms extended, offered him the crater. He took it and sniffed it and then took a wary sip. Then he threw back his head and drained the crater. 'Hah!' said he when finished." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 150 - 151 ~才 "I had tarsk meat and yellow bread with honey, Gorean peas and a tankard of diluted Ka-la-na, warm water mixed with wine." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 87 ~才 "...a small bottle of Ka-la-na wine, in a wicker basket, which they had permitted us, swallow by swallow to share. I had never tasted so rich and delicate a wine on Earth, and yet here, on this world, it costs only a copper tarn disk and was so cheap, and plentiful, that it might be given even to a female slave. I remembered each of the four swallows which I had had. I tasted them even still, with the meat and breatd which I had eaten. It was the first Gorean fermented beverage which I had tasted. It is said that Ka-la-na has an unusual effect on a female." Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 114 ~才 "The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance..." Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 250 ~才 -Ka-la-na served Trevian style- "I turned and, among the furnishings of the tent, found a bottle of Ka-la-na, of good vintage, from the vineyards of Ar, the loot of a caravan raid. I then took the wine, with a small copper bowl, and a black, red-rimmed wine crater, to the side of the fire. I poured some of the wine into the small copper bowl, and set it on the tripod over the tiny fire in the fire bowl. ... After a time I took the copper bowl from the fire and held it against my cheek. I returned it again to the tripod, and again we waited. ... Again I took the bowl from the fire. It was now not comfortable to hold the bowl, but it was not painful to do so. I poured thee wine from the small copper bowl into the black, red-trimmed wine crater, placing the small bowl in a rack to one side of the fire. I swirled, slowly, the wine in the wine crater. I saw my reflection in the redness, the blondness of my hair, dark in the wine, and the collar, with its bells, about my throat. I now, in the fashion of the slave girl of Treve, held the wine crater against my right cheek. I could feel the warmth of the wine through the side of the crater. 'Is it ready?' he asked. A master of Treve does not care to be told that his girl thinks it is. He wishes to be told Yes, or No. 'Yes,' I whispered. I did not know how he cared for his wine, for some men of Treve wish it warm, others almost hot. I did not know how he wished it. What if it were not as he wished it! 'Serve me wine,' he said. I, carrying the wine crater, rose to my feet and approached him. I then knelt before him, with a rustle of slave bells, in the position of the pleasure slave. I put my head down and, with both hands, extending my arms to him, held forth the wine crater. 'I offer you wine, Master,' I said. He took the wine, and I watched, in terror. He sipped it and smiled. I nearly fainted. I would not be beaten." Book 7, Captive of Gor, pages 331 - 332 ~才 "One girl held our head back, and others, from goblets, gave us of wines, Turian wine, sweet and thick, Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes, from the terraces of Cos, wines even, Ka-la-nas, sweets and drys, from distant Ar." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 213 ~才 "It was Ta wine, from the Ta grapes of the terraces of Cos. Such a small thing, in its way, bespoke the intimacy of the trade relations between Vonda and Cos. In the last year heavy import duties had been levied by the high council of Vonda against the wines of certain other cities, in particular against the Ka-la-nas of Ar." Book 14, Fighting Slave of Gor, page 306 ~才

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