1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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Albano, resembling Lacryma

aroma,

and

Christi,

The principal wine of Naples, from the

Orvieto.

base of Vesuvius, is Lacryma Christi, a rich, red, ex- quisite drink, affirmed by some adventurous fancies to be the Falernian of Horace. "O Christ!" said a Dutchman who drank, *' why didst Thou not weep in my country ? " Gallipoli, Tarento, Baia, Pausillipo, yield good wines. The islands in the Bay of Naples all produce wine ; that of Cap7^ea is of good ordinary quality, both white and red. Calabria furnishes many good wines. Muscadenes and dry wines are made at Reggio. Asprino, a white foamy wine, with a plea- sant sharpness, is a favourite of the Gampagna. Carigliano is a Muscadine, with a flavour of fennel. Dr. Charnock speaks highly of the wine of Capri, and of Orvieto, a delicate white wine of Rome. The dis- agreement of travellers about the merits of wines arises principally, of course, from a diversity of tastes, but also in the matter of Italian wines, from the fact that different wines bear the same names in different countries. There is, for instance, a vino santo and a vino greco in Naples. A Veronese wine, vino debolis" simo e di niuna stinm, is also called vino santo, and an excellently good wine at Brescia. It is the same with half a dozen of the most noted wines of Italy. Modico, a fine white wine from the place of that name near Salerno, was apparently a favourite of the noted School of Salernum. The best known wines out of Italy are the Barola, Barbera, and the rest which may be found on th^ wine-list of every padrone of an Italian restaurant ; the Inferno of the Valtellina ; the Lam-