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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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