1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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simple and scientific.

In a word, no book on wines

can be considered complete without it. In the suc- ceeding pages Wines as Beers are, for convenience of reference, arranged after the alphabetical order of their countries.

— Mascara. America: Catawbas

— Rota

Africa:

Constantias

— Kaludah

— Mosto. Australia :

— Chacoli

Muscatel — Verdeilho

Carbinet

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— Conatto. Canaries :

Vedueno

Eng-

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Home-made Wines.

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Africa. Of this country the most important wines of the present are, perhaps, Pontac. Hanepoot, Frontignac, and Drakenstein. On the wines of the Cape of Good Hope, Dr. Edward Kretschmar is a great authority. Kokwyn, made from Muscat grapes, re- sembles Malaga. The best dry white wines, called Cape Hocks, are produced in the village of Paarl. The Constantias, so called from the wife of the Dutch governor. Van der Stell, are of three kinds. These excellent sweet wines are too frequently falsified and adulterated before reaching the palate of the English consumer. A red wine, called Rota, is made at Stellenbosh. Cape Madeira is a boiled and mixed wine. Stein wine is excellent when old. Red Cape, when drunk in the country, is a " sound, good wine," says Cyrus Redding.^ The wine of Morocco is chiefly made by the Jews ; it Is light, acid, and will not keep. In Tetuan a wine is made nearly equal, according to Cyrus Redding, to the Spanish wine of ^ Who would believe this from the specimens tasted in England ? Yet we are assured the statement is perfectly true.