Ka-la-na wine
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This is the red rich wine made from the fruit of the  yellow  Ka-la-na tree. Like most wines it is  bottled, kept in wineskins (or botas), or on occasion,  flasks. Ar is famous for it's Ka-la-na bottlers. Ka-la-na is a  plentiful, heady wine served in  goblets  or  tankards.Sometimes it is diluted with warm water before serving and can be either sweet or  dry.  Other Men prefer to have it warmed over a fire in a  copper bowl and served in a wine crater.  Ka-la-na is also sometimes warmed over a fire, and spices added; this is like the mulled wines on Earth.
 "Yes! It would be the one that would be red with Ka-la-na..."
Tarnsman of Gor, page 79
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"...drops of a red, winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree"
     Tarnsman of Gor, page 68
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"...kicking from my path a Ka-la-na container, splashing the fermented red liquid across the stone surface "
     Tarnsman of Gor, page79
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"The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance..."
Captive of Gor, page 250
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"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..."
Nomads of Gor, page 15
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"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."
Tarnsman of Gor,  page 168
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 "...a small bottle of Ka-la-na wine, in a wicker basket...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...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."
Captive of Gor, page 114
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"I drained the last sip of the heady wine in the metal goblet."
Tarnsman of Gor, page 26
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 "I had tarsk meat and yellow bread with honey, Gorean peas and a tankard of diluted Ka-la-na, warm water mixed with wine."
Assassin of Gor, page 87
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 "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."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 213
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 "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...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 the wine from the small copper bowl into the black, red-rimmed wine crater..."
Captive of Gor, pages 331-332
 
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