1880 Facts about Port and Madeira by Henry Vizetelly

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XI. Eldeebeeeies and Logwood—G-eneeal Eemaeks ABOUT Poet Wine. Lord Lytton's Beckless Assertions regarding Port Wine Confuted Elder berries not Used for Dyeing the Wine—Geropiga often Mixed with Low- class Ports—Logwood incapable of Deepening the Colour of Port Wine— The amount of Spirit usually Added to Port—High Alcoholic Strength ■which the Alto Douro Wines will naturally develop—Evaporation of the watery parts of Wine in warm, dry Climates—^Alto Douro Wine made without Adventitious Spirit—Wine of this character not likely to super sede Port of the established type—Frequent changes of Fashion in the style of Port Wine—Fine Old Ta'wny Ports and their Cheaper Substitutes —Laying down Port Wine—Mr. T. G. Shaw's suggestions for bringing it forward rapidly in Bottle—Burrow's patent "Slider" Wine-bins. Some dozen years ago the present Governor-General of India, at that tlBie Secretary of Legation at Lisbon, sent a thrill through the frames of habitual drinkers of Port wine by stating in an officialreport that" all Port wine intended for the Enghsh