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DJRINKS.
Canaries.
The
Canary
Islands
have
long
been
celebrated
for
their
wines.
The
favourite
Teneriffe
wine
is
Vidueho
or
Vidonia.
Canary
sack
is
supposed
to
have
been
made
from
the
Malvasia
sweet
grape,
whereas
the
modern
sack
is
dry
[sec).
The
best
vineyards
are
at
Orotava,
S.
Ursula,
Ycod
de
los
Vinos, Buenavista,
and
Valle
de
Guerra.
England.
British
made
wines
hold
no
,very
high
rank.
A
cheap
foreign
manufacture
is,
according
to
some
,of
their
vendors,
gradually,
ousting
them
from
the
market.
But
at
one
time
they
formed
a
part of
the
education
of
the
good
housewives
of
Great
Britain.
Home
wines
were
chiefly
made
from
plums,
apples,
gooseberries,
bilberries,
elderberries,
blackberries,
currants
(red
and
black),
raspberries,
cherries,
cowslips,
parsnips,
raisins,
greengages,
damsons,
ginger,
oranges,
and
lemons.
Less
commonly
and
in
former
times
we
had
wines
from
mulberries,
quinces,
peaches,
apricots,
and
from
the
sap
of
the
birch,
beech,
sycamore,
and
other
trees.
Years
ago
''
sweets
"
or
home-made
wines
were
sent
from
Scotland
and
Ireland,
such
as
ginger
wine
and
so-called
cherry
and
raspberry
whiskies.
The
flowers
of
meadow-sweet
(Spircsa
ulmaria)
yield
a
fragrant
distilled
water,
which
is
said
to
be
used
by
wine
merchants
to
improve
the
flavour
of
their
wines.
In
a
little
work
by
Mr.
G.
Vine
on
Home-made
Wines,
the
reader
will
find
numerous
receipts
how
to
make
and
keep
these
wines,
with
observations
on
gathering