"What? Not a single coin, all of it given away?" Even Bulo, a duke's steward, froze in astonishment upon hearing Nalant's words.
The main reason was that this grape wine had become far too popular in the Nock Royal Capital.
The grape wine originally purchased from Storm Territory cost only three gold coins per jug, and when it first arrived in the Nock Royal Capital, it sold for around six gold coins per jug.
That price was already far from cheap among ordinary fine wines, but that had merely been the initial price.
As the nobles came to embrace the wine's delicious flavor, and as the ordinary grape wine Marquis Um had brought back dwindled, its price began to soar in a straight line.
First, it rose from six gold coins per jug to ten gold coins, then fifteen per jug, and then twenty gold coins per jug.
Even so, grape wine at twenty gold coins a jug was still impossible to find on the market.
Of course, if one was willing to spend more, one could visit the Nock First Restaurant, where grape wine sold for fifty gold coins per jug.
Don't think it was expensive. That was the only way to taste grape wine within a short time.
Otherwise, one could only keep waiting—for the next merchant caravan to head to Storm Territory, make its purchases, and return.
Barring any accidents, that would take one or two months.
And as nobles, who would wait so long just to save a few gold coins?
After all, when attending banquets, everyone else would be talking about how delicious grape wine was. If you were the only one who had never tasted it, you would immediately be outdone in terms of face.
Thus, twenty gold coins per jug was absolutely a