1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

99

— Four Methods of Cultivation of Vine-

Portugal: Peso da Regoa

— The Quintas

— Tarragona

— Chanieco.

White and Black Ports

: Kahetia— Gumbrinskoe.

Russia Malaga

Spain :

Sicily

Marsala.

:

— Sherry

— Amontillado.

Switzerland :

Chiavenna

— The Canton of Vaud.

Cider

Derivation

Gall

St.

—

:

— Macau-

— Evelyn

— Bacon

— Gerard

Ainsworth

Turberville

Perry.

lay^Phillips.

Portugal. One hundred and fifty years ago, in the small town of Peso da Regoa, then called Regua only, near the confluence of the Corgo with the Douro, lived a single fisherman, in a hut which he had himself constructed. When the Oporto Wine Company was established, their warehouses were erected here, and an annual fair for the sale of wine was established. Peso da Regoa — the Peso comes from an adjoining village — is now a thriving town, and may be con- sidered the capital of the Alto Douro district [Paiz Vinhateiro do Alto Douro), whence are sent to England and elsewhere those wines which are here known as bounded by Villa Real on the north, Lamego on the south, S. Joao da Pesqueira on the east, and Mezaofrio on the west. It is unwhole- some, and but thinly populated. Those who list may draw from this fact a divine prohibition of the bibbing of Port. The vine is cultivated in Portugal in four ways. ) By being trained round oaks or poplars de enforcado, as the Romans ulmisque adjungere vites. (2) By the terrace system, the best as (i) is the most picturesque. (3) By bushes in rows, with the intermediate ground Port. The wine district is { I