1892 Drinks of the world

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ploughed^ The first liquor drawn from the lagar, or press, the result of the weight of the grapes alone, is called Lacryma Christu After that a gang of men jump into the lagar, and dance to the sound of the fife or bagpipe. The weather is warm, the work is hard ; the result is better conceived than expressed. Of white ports the best are Muscatel de Jesus (the testimony to religious influence in this and the Lacryma Christi is extremely touching), considered the prince of all,, the Dedo de Dama^ the Ferral Branco, Malvazia (our Malmsey)/ Abelhal, Agitdelho, Alvaraga, Donzellinho, Folgozdo, Gonveio, White Mourisco, Rabo da Ovelha, and Promts sdo. Of the black ports the finest Is Touriga, and the sweetest Bastardo, Other dark ports are Souzdo, the darkest of all, Aragonez, Pegitdo, besides Tintas, whose names are legion. Other wines grown here, or in the im- mediate vicinity,, are Alvarilkdo,. a kind of clarety Alicante, Muscatel, Roxo, and Malvazia Vermelha. Great quantities of wine are produced in the quintas outside the line of demarcation, and some of these wines are equal to those made in the wine district of the Alto Doui'o Itself. Red wines transformed into French clarets at Bordeaux, are exported in large (4) By the trellis or de ramad'a.

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1 Malms-ey wine is also a product of Funchal, in Madeira. first so-called wine was shipped for Francis I. of France. The word is probably a corruption of Malvasia or Mone^nvasia {fxovr} i/xjSama, or single entrance), a Greek island from which the grape may have been brought by the Florentine Acciajoli in 15 15.