1892 Drinks of the world

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b-^INKS.

AHnto and Estremaditra are cbmparatlvely

tivated.

new wines. The white wines of Tojal and the vin- tages of Palmella and Inglezinhos have only to be known to become popular. The province of Traz-os- Montes, in spite of its cUmate of nave ntzzes de inverno, e tres de inferno, produces excellent wines in the Piaz Vinhateiro. Those in the vicinity of the river Tua and the Sabor are considered by connoisseurs to re- semble the celebrated Clos Voicgeot. There is a remarkable red wine called Cornifesto, and the white wines of Areas, Braganga, Moraes, Moncorvo, and Nosedo are excellent. The cup of Charneco (2 Hen. VI. ii. 3), a wine mentioned by Beaumont and Fletcher and Decker, is said to have been made at Charneco, a village near Lisbon (^European Magazine, March, 1794). Port-wine is accredited with producing gout, and the two accompanying illustrations give the " Intro- duction to the Gout," and the real fiend itself

Russia.

Kahetia

is a wine produced in a district of that

is of two descriptions, red

name, east of Tiflis. and white, and is

It

much esteemed throughout Trans-

caucasia. As it is kept in skins made t[ght with naphtha, it has generally a slight taste of leather and petroleum. Gumbrinskod is a sweet wine grown in the Gumbri district of the Caucasus. Donskod Ckam- panskod, the champagne of the Don, is said by Dr. Charnock to be a very good wine, and better than