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58
.
DRINKS.
simple
and
scientific.
In
a
word,
no
book
on
wines
can
be
considered
complete
without
it.
In
the
suc-
ceeding
pages
Wines
as
Beers
are,
for
convenience
of
reference,
arranged
after
the
alphabetical
order
of
their
countries.
Africa:
Constantias
—
Rota
—
Mascara.
America:
Catawbas
Muscatel
—
Chacoli
—
Mosto.
Australia
:
Carbinet
—
Kaludah
—
Verdeilho
—
Conatto.
Canaries
:
Vedueno
—
Sack.
Eng-
land
:
Home-made
Wines.
Africa.
Of
this
country
the
most
important
wines
of
the
present
are,
perhaps,
Pontac.
Hanepoot,
Frontignac,
and
Drakenstein.
On
the
wines
of
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope,
Dr.
Edward
Kretschmar
is
a
great
authority.
Kokwyn,
made
from
Muscat
grapes,
re-
sembles
Malaga.
The
best
dry
white
wines,
called
Cape
Hocks,
are
produced
in
the
village
of
Paarl.
The
Constantias,
so
called
from
the
wife
of
the
Dutch
governor.
Van
der
Stell,
are of
three
kinds.
These
excellent
sweet wines
are too
frequently
falsified
and
adulterated
before
reaching
the
palate
of
the
English
consumer.
A
red
wine,
called
Rota,
is
made
at
Stellenbosh.
Cape
Madeira
is
a
boiled
and
mixed
wine.
Stein
wine
is
excellent
when
old.
Red
Cape,
when
drunk
in
the
country,
is
a
"
sound,
good
wine,"
says
Cyrus
Redding.^
The
wine
of
Morocco
is
chiefly
made
by
the
Jews
;
it
Is
light,
acid,
and
will
not
keep.
In
Tetuan
a
wine
is
made
nearly
equal,
according
to
Cyrus
Redding,
to
the
Spanish
wine
of
^
Who
would
believe
this
from
the
specimens
tasted
in
England
?
Yet
we
are
assured
the
statement
is
perfectly
true.