The raisins are poisoned!!!

Corpses bloat up in water, but that's not necromancy
Too simplistic for botany unless you were experimenting on the raisin
Must be cooking, plumping up food by soaking in water sounds like what one would do to rice, yes? Same principle.

Sad to say it's not fermentation. Boiling raisins doesn't make wine. It makes bigger raisins!

--Chet

A pity. A nice wine would have been a lovely outcome to this meandering of madness do you not think?

Meandering of madness usually follows a nice wine for me but nothing's stopping us from enjoying one here in the tavern.

Has anyone checked on Jardin, though? I really don't think what the boy chomped were raisins...

--Chet

Damn it, Moostrav.
Now I feel queasy. Yuck.

Hang on, what does Moostrav have to do with raisins? Even after quite a bit of rum, I realize I'm walking into a punchline.

--Chet

Is this where I put a post-script? Oh well. I forgot he posed the question about how to categorize boiling raisins.