1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty drinks by William Terrington

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Sherry.

caprice, a butt of wine from tlie general vintage Brandy added to Amontillado would ruin it, hence, coupled with Montilla, a fine wine grown near Cordova and Manzanilla, so called from the Spanish word for camomile, the flavour of which it yet partakes will assume the Amontillado flavour.

This trio is unapproachable as presenting fine,

of.

All Xeres wines are,

dry, pure, and healthy wines.

(the Arabic word

when unmingled with ctrrope

for boiled must), of a pale colour. The difference in the colour of Sherries is principally owing to the peculiar choice of the different palates to please which they are prepared. They are in general coloured with ctrrope, which is thus made : a butt of ordinary Sherry is boiled down to about one-fifth of its bulk, acquiring a deep brown colour, and according to the various tints or flavour desired ; ctrrope is next added, with Brandy and Sweet Wine also, if Sherry, when pure, contains less free acid, it is not so stimulating as most wines, and agrees well with most constitutions. Dietetically speaking, it is becoming the wine in most general use in England. It is also much used as a pharmaceutical agent, for the extraction of the required. Sherries should be judged by their taste, not by their colour ; a pure wine will soon pro- claim itself.