1895 Mixed Drinks by Herbert W Green

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MIXED DRINKS.

revival of her waning rev.enues. Among her exported wines the Barolo of Piedmont,the Chianti of Tuscany,- the Orvieto of the Poman States, the Lacryma Christi, of ll'aples, and other special growths have high reputa tions. The principal Italian wine is grown in the neigh borhood of Marsala,Sicily, where the business is carried on in a more systematic and energetic manner. It much resembles Madeira wine,having good bouquetand improving with age, and is made of a combination of various kinds of grapesincluding the Madeira varieties. The wine industry of Portugal is very old, but it is only since late in 1600 that a great foreign trade sprang up through Oporto. The famous wines known as Port are produced in the northeast of Portugal in the district of Alto Douro,embracing a rugged mountainous tract as large as Rhode Island. The climate is very cold in winter and excessively warm in summer. To the rich soil and the intense heat which sometimes reaches 108 degress in the shade,is attributed the perfection of color, ripeness and body which these wines attain. Much wine is also produced in the neighborhood of Lisbon and other districts of Portugal, of which the leading ones are Torres Vedres, Collares, Carcavellos, and Bucellas. But the most noted, in many respects, is