(Susan M. Pigott is a fountain pen collector, pen and paperholic, photographer, and professor. You can find more from Susan on her blog Scribalishess.)
The holiday season is usually a time when we come together to enjoy hot beverages--at least in the northern hemisphere. Obviously, hot chocolate comes to mind. But there are more “adult” beverages as well, such as mulled wine. I’ve never tasted this particular holiday drink, but red wine simmered with cloves, cinnamon, spices, and cider sounds tantalizing.
Diamine’s Mulled Wine ink isn’t tasty, but it does evoke the beverage with a dark burgundy hue. This is a standard ink, so it doesn’t have any sheen or shimmer, but it has a tiny bit of shading if you use a flex nib.
Mulled Wine is a bit darker and has a bluer cast to it compared to yesterday’s ink, Noel. Plus it’s a standard ink whereas Noel contains sheen. The two inks are otherwise quite similar. If you prefer a burgundy ink without sheen, then you’ll definitely like Mulled Wine.
I’m not sure why Diamine chose to put two very similar inks on successive days in the calendar. It’s not a big issue, especially if you like red inks, but these two inks are so close in hue, you’d think they would have put one or the other elsewhere in the lineup.
(Cult Pens provided the Diamine Inkvent Calendar to Pen Addict free of charge for review purposes.)
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