Wassail is a hot, mulled punch often associated with Yuletide, drunk from a 'wassail bowl'. The Gower Wassail is a wassail song from Gower in Wales, UK. Wassail punch is a warm mulled beer or cider drunk in winter in Victorian times. Smoking Bishop is a type of mulled wine, punch or wassail. Hot mulled cider, similar to "Wassail", is a popular autumn and winter beverage. The apple trees are toasted with wassail, apple cider and apple cake, followed by fireworks. Wassail bowls, generally in the shape of goblets, have been preserved. The album begins with an adaptation of the Christmas carol "Gower Wassail". It replaces the word "wassail" with "Christmas". There are surviving examples of "puzzle wassail bowls", with many spouts. Traditionally, the wassail is celebrated on Twelfth Night (variously on either January 5 or 6). There are many well recorded instances of the Apple Wassail in the early modern period. In 2017 he wrote "Wassail Play", which was performed at the Theatre Royal, Dumfries. "Hunting the Wren" is on John Kirkpatrick's album "Wassail!".