1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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including the Tokays, Rust, Menes, and many more, are of the most important character. Without the ad- dition of dry berries the so-called natural wine or Szamorodni is obtained. The Tokay essence, a very sweet wine, should be also very old. When fifty years in bottle it costs some ^3 ^ for a small flask. Ausbruch, also sweet, should be also old, Maszlacz is of four different kinds. The Mezes, Male or Imperial, does not get into trade. Meograd, Krasso, and Villany from the West of Hungary are good strong wines of the second class. Wines of the third class are very numerous. There is no space to mention more than the red wines : Bar any a, Presburg, Somogy, Vagh-r Ujhelyer, Paulitsch, and Erdod, and the white Miszla, Balaton, Fiired, Hont, Pesth, and Weissenburg. Sam- lauer is one of the best white wines made at a place called Samlau, as Erlauer another good wine at Erlau. The most commonly known Hungarian wines of the present are Oedenburg, Samlau, Neszmely, and Carlo- witz,

Italy.

That

Italy produces good wines

says Cyrus

is,

She also produces wines that

Redding, undeniable.

The best Italian wines are said to be

are very bad.

As Hafiz is the authority for

produced in Tuscany.

1 The value attached to this wine is one example among many of the caprice of fashion. The Muscadine of Syracuse or the Lagrima of Malaga is equal to it in richness, and few people would prefer it to other wines, did they dare to contradict the decision of fashion in its favour, and to have a taste of their own.