1895 The Mixicologist by C F Lawlor

THE i\IIXI COLOGI ST . 97 derful natu ral advantages-- and wh y ? because she has taken advantage of her fitness of soil to the vine; her meteorological conditions; he r geograph– ical positions as regards the European ma rkets, and incidenta lly those of the world, and partly to the aptitude of its inhabitants, tha t France developed the position which it n ow h olds. Spain is second only in reputation t o France among wine - growing countries; its white \Yine, known as sh erry, first brought it into prominence. Sherry, so called from the town of ] er ez (Xeras) de la Frontera, the h eadquarters of this industry. There are seyeral different varieties of sherry, which may be divided into the Amontillado and Manzanilla classes. The Amontillado class may again be divided into Jina and olloroso, the former b eing the more delicate. The generous, full flavored wines known as Port, a re the produce of the district of Alto Douro, in the northeast of Portugal, and theuce sbipped to and from Oporto. Home Industry. In our own country the cultivation of the vine has made rapid progress of late years, and Amer ican wines are steedily t aking the place of the foreign product. The soil a nd clima te of the Pacific Coast seem best adapted to the growth of the v inet and wine-making is very likely to become one of the leading industries of California . The Mission grape (being the first) is supposed to have been imported