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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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