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DRINK^S.
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San
Lucar
de
Barrameda.
Val
de
Penas^
wines
are
commonly
red.
After
the
perfection
of
age,
this
celebrated
product
of
La
Manche
^
is,
in
the
opinion
of
Redding,
equal
to
any
red
wine
in
the
world.
Much
wine
of
Catalonia
is
now
imported
into
England
as
Catalan
Port.
Borja
produces
a
luscious
white
wine.
The
country
about
Tarragona
on
the
road
to
Barcelona
is
almost
w^holly
occupied
with
wine
making.
Bent-Carlos,
La
Torre,
Segorbe,
and
Murviedro,
are
all
fair
wines
of
Valencia.
Alicant
produces
an
excellent
red
wine,
vino
tinto,
strong
and
sweet
;
when
old,
this
wine
is
called
FondelloL
Vinaroz,
Santo
Domingo,
and
Perales,
offer
red
wines
of
moderate
excellence.
The
best
wines
of
Aragon
are
Carinena
and
the
Hospital,
from
the
vine
which
the
French
call
Grenache.
In
Biscay,
at
Chacoli,
a
vino
brozno,
or
austere
wine,
is
produced
in
large
quantity.
The
best
is
made
at
Vittoria,
and
called
Pedro
Ximenes?
Fuencaral,
near
Madrid,
offers
a
good
wine
seldom
exported.
The
most
famous
wine-growing
district
of
Granada
is
that
of
Malaga,
termed
Axarqula.
This
produces
Malagas,
Muscatels,
Malvasies,
and
Tintos.
The
red
wines
called
Tinto
de
Rota
and
Sacra
are
unfermented
with
only
enough
spirit
for
preservation,
and
are
commonly
advertised
in
our
wine
circulars
as
"
suitable
for
sacramental
purposes."
Guindre
is
flavoured
with
cherries
from
which
It
derives
its
name.
1
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indicating
the
soil
on
which
it
is
grown.
*
2
It
is
frequently
damaged
by
the
carelessness
of
the
viiiatero,
or
wine-seller,
to
such
an
extent
that
the
proverb
Fregonar
viiio
y
vender
vinagre
becomes,
like
wisdom,
justified
of
her
children.
^-
So
called
from
the
grape
common
in
most
parts
of
Spain.