1892 Drinks of the world

DRINK^S.

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San Lucar de Barrameda.

Val de Penas^ wines are

commonly red. age, this celebrated product of La Manche ^ is, in the opinion of Redding, equal to any red wine in the world. Much wine of Catalonia is now imported into England as Catalan Port. Borja produces a luscious white wine. The country about Tarragona on the road to Barcelona is almost w^holly occupied with wine making. Bent-Carlos, La Torre, Segorbe, and Murviedro, are Vinaroz, Santo Domingo, and Perales, offer red wines of moderate excellence. The best wines of Aragon are Carinena and the Hospital, from the vine which the French call Grenache. In Biscay, at Chacoli, a vino brozno, or austere wine, is produced in large quantity. The best is made at Vittoria, and called Pedro Ximenes? Fuencaral, near Madrid, offers a good wine seldom exported. The most famous wine-growing district of Granada is that of Malaga, termed Axarqula. This produces Malagas, Muscatels, Malvasies, and Tintos. The red wines called Tinto de Rota and Sacra are unfermented with only enough spirit for preservation, and are commonly advertised in our wine circulars as " suitable for sacramental purposes." Guindre is flavoured with cherries from which It derives its name. 2 It is frequently damaged by the carelessness of the viiiatero, or wine-seller, to such an extent that the proverb Fregonar viiio y vender vinagre becomes, like wisdom, justified of her children. ^- So called from the grape common in most parts of Spain. After the perfection of all fair wines of Valencia. Alicant produces an excellent red wine, vino tinto, strong and sweet ; when old, this wine is called FondelloL 1 ra//4>'(?/y?^