100 / 374
ioo
DRmKS.
ploughed^
(4)
By
the
trellis
or de
ramad'a.
The
first
liquor
drawn
from
the
lagar,
or
press,
the
result
of
the
weight
of the
grapes
alone,
is
called
Lacryma
Christu
After
that
a
gang
of
men
jump
into
the
lagar,
and
dance
to
the
sound
of
the
fife
or
bagpipe.
The
weather
is
warm,
the
work
is
hard
;
the
result
is
better
conceived
than
expressed.
Of
white
ports
the
best
are
Muscatel
de
Jesus
(the
testimony
to religious
influence
in
this
and
the
Lacryma
Christi
is
extremely
touching),
considered
the
prince
of
all,,
the
Dedo
de
Dama^
the
Ferral
Branco,
Malvazia
(our
Malmsey)/
Abelhal,
Agitdelho,
Alvaraga,
Donzellinho,
Folgozdo,
Gonveio,
White
Mourisco,
Rabo
da
Ovelha,
and
Promts
sdo.
Of
the
black
ports
the
finest
Is
Touriga,
and
the
sweetest
Bastardo,
Other
dark
ports
are
Souzdo,
the
darkest
of
all,
Aragonez,
Pegitdo,
besides
Tintas,
whose
names
are
legion.
Other
wines
grown
here,
or
in
the
im-
mediate
vicinity,,
are
Alvarilkdo,.
a
kind
of
clarety
Alicante,
Muscatel,
Roxo,
and
Malvazia
Vermelha.
Great
quantities
of
wine
are
produced
in
the
quintas
outside
the
line
of
demarcation,
and
some
of
these
wines
are
equal
to
those
made
in
the
wine
district
of
the
Alto
Doui'o
Itself.
Red
wines
transformed
into
French
clarets
at
Bordeaux,
are
exported
in
large
quantities.
A
wine
from
Tarragona,
known
as
**
Spanish
Red/'
or
superb
Catalan,
Is
sent
yearly
to
1
Malms-ey
wine
is
also
a
product
of
Funchal,
in
Madeira.
The
first
so-called
wine
was
shipped
for
Francis
I.
of
France.
The
word
is
probably
a
corruption
of
Malvasia
or
Mone^nvasia
{fxovr}
i/xjSama,
or
single
entrance),
a
Greek
island
from
which
the
grape
may
have
been
brought
by
the
Florentine
Acciajoli
in
15
15.