[Dragaera] _Taltos_ and _The Hobbit_

[Philip Hart]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Alexx Kay wrote:

>> Greenhills Wine, '637 - is that a vintage?  If so from when?
>
> I have a vague memory that I can't track down right now that one of the
> early books refers to a wine as being 437 -- or at any rate, some 3-digit
> number beginning with 4.  Clearly neither of these refer to "year of
> Zerika IV's reign".
>
> Possibilities:
> * Dragaerans have some *very* good spells for arresting the aging of wine,
> so that a vintage can be hundreds of years old and still drinkable.

I don't think Tortaalik was around for 600 years, which would put this 
vintage at perhaps 1k years.  With survival of the interregnum to be 
explained away.

Is an Athyra likely to be a connoisseur?  I figured they're ascetics not 
esthetes.