1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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Into this wine, as into some others, the Spaniards are wont to put roasted pears, under the conceit that thereby it is much improved in taste and rendered more wholesome. Hence arose the proverb Bl vino de las peras dalo a qiiien bien qui^ras. Malaga X^res is often known in England as the pale, gold, dry- sherry, ^ as the wines of Alicant, Benicarlos, and Valencia are sold as a rich and fruity Port. The so- called Amontillado Sherry is very often the outcome of accident. Out of a hundred butts of sherry from the same vineyard, some, says a great authority, will be Amontillado, without the manufacturers being able to account for it. At Cordova, a dry wine called Montilla is commonly drunk. Swiss wines are commonly consumed only in Swit- zerland. The best is produced in the Grisons, called Ckiave7tna, aromatic and white from the red grape. A white Malvana of good quality is made in the Valais. It is luscious, as is Chiavenna. The Valais also furnishes red wines, made at La Marque and Coquempin in the district of Martigny. Schaffhausen gives plenty of red wine. The wine of blood'^ is manufactured at Basle. These wines are also known as those of the Hospital and St. Jaques. The red 1 The fine old Amoroso, of which a small stock is still remaining. 2 So called from the battle of Birs, in the reign of Louis XL, in which 1, 600 Swiss opposed 30,000 French, and only sixteen of the former survived. The fallen succumbed, we are told, less to the power of the foe than to the fatigue of the fighting. Switzerland.