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to give the porter its dark color, and the sugar content is
high. Its alcoholic content runs between 5 and 6%.
Rhine Wine, as its name indicates, is of German origin and
comes from the region of the valley of the Rhine River.
Generally it contains from 7 to 10% of alcohol. A few
kinds, however, run as high as 13%. The grape district is
perhaps the furthest north in which wine grapes are grown
in Europe. Over-ripe grapes are used for this wine, and
they are hand selected. The method of manufacture is
similar to that followed in making Sauterne wine. Usually
the wine is light, rather colorless, and dry, but of good
quality and bouquet.
Rum is a liquor distilled from fermented molasses, cane sugar
syrup, or in fact any cane sugar ferment. It probably
originated in the West Indian Islands, whence comes the
most of it to-day, such as Bacardi, Jamaica, etc. It is of
a dark brown color, produced either by ageing in wood
or the introduction of carmel. Inferior rum is produced
by mixing rum essence with spirits of high rectification.
The alcoholic content of rum runs between 65 and 82%
by volume.
Rye Whiskey is essentially an American whiskey, and is dis
tinguished from the other American whiskey, Bourbon
(which see), by the fact that the main ferment base is
rye instead of corn or maize. (See Whiskey.)
Sauterne Wine is named for the French district in which it
is produced, Sauterne, and is white, sweet and well bou-
queted. It is not made in the manner for red wines
as the grapes, which are white, are over-ripe and withered'