1899 The Mixicologist by C F Lawlor

The Wine Cellar. Poets and Sherries—Store bottles on end on a shelf in a moderately cool room or cellar. The wine being warm and generous, should not be drank cold. Port wine is not a mereluxury: it has high medicinal properties. It is a tonic, and it has greater or less astringency according to the various growths and vin tages. The wine derivesitsnamefrom thecityofOporto, located where the river Douro enters the sea, and the wild,mountainous country through which this boisterous river dashes is the place of growth of this wine; the vineyards extending in terrace upon terrace from the edge of the river to the top of the highest mountain in the "Alto Douro" district ofPortugal. There is a prevailing notion that genuine ports are not obtainable. If invalids and convalescents knew of the splendid tonic and building-up properties of our real ports, they would not be slow in obtaining tbem. We advocate only wines of the highest merit. Fine Old Port, Sherry, Burgundies, Clarets, Madeira, pure Cali fornia Wines, Sauternes, and Champagnes. There are winesgrown in Spain resembling port,such as the "Tarragonas"; and in France is made a wine resembling port, known as the"Roussilion," but a much better substitute than either of these is the pure

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