1953 The U K B G Guide to Drinks

PORT

name sand-blasted on the bottle. A whitewash mark is usually placed on the punt end of the bottle to indicate that when the bottle is moved it should be replaced in position with the whitewash mark upper most. This prevents the formation of a second "crust"on the side of the bottle. This crust is a perfectly natural process undergone by the rvine, and does it no harm. With other wines this"Sediment" is removed by racking, which cannot be done with Vintage Port. Late Vintage Port.—A similar wine, except that it is bottled in its third year. Crusted Ports.—Either younger blended wines of a number of years, or wine made in other than vintage years, but bottled in the same way as vintage ports. Ruby, Medium and Tawny Ports.—It has been described previously how the wine loses colour with rnaturity, this used to be the method of denoting the difference in these wines, but the more modem method is to biend rubies with white port, thus accounting for the colour and saving the long storage expense. White Ports.—These are made from Wlrite Grapes but the wine is not white in colour. There is no difference in the manufacture of white and red ports.

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