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Portugal:
Peso
da
Regoa
—
Four
Methods
of
Cultivation
of
Vine-
White
and
Black
Ports
—
The
Quintas
—
Tarragona
—
Chanieco.
Russia
:
Kahetia—
Gumbrinskoe.
Sicily
:
Marsala.
Spain
:
Malaga
—
Sherry
—
Amontillado.
Switzerland
:
Chiavenna
St.
Gall
—
The
Canton
of
Vaud.
Cider
:
Derivation
Ainsworth
—
Gerard
—
Bacon
—
Evelyn
—
Turberville
—
Macau-
lay^Phillips.
Perry.
Portugal.
One
hundred
and
fifty
years
ago,
in
the
small
town
of
Peso
da Regoa,
then
called
Regua
only,
near
the
confluence
of
the
Corgo
with
the
Douro,
lived
a
single
fisherman,
in
a
hut
which
he
had
himself
constructed.
When
the
Oporto
Wine
Company
was
established,
their
warehouses
were
erected
here,
and
an
annual
fair
for
the
sale
of
wine
was
established.
Peso
da
Regoa
—
the
Peso
comes
from
an
adjoining
village
—
is
now
a
thriving
town,
and
may
be
con-
sidered the
capital
of
the
Alto
Douro
district
[Paiz
Vinhateiro
do
Alto
Douro),
whence
are
sent
to
England
and
elsewhere
those
wines
which
are
here
known
as
Port.
The
wine
district
is
bounded
by
Villa
Real
on
the
north,
Lamego
on
the
south,
S.
Joao
da
Pesqueira
on
the
east,
and
Mezaofrio
on
the
west.
It
is
unwhole-
some,
and
but
thinly
populated.
Those
who
list
may
draw
from
this
fact
a
divine
prohibition
of
the
bibbing
of
Port.
The
vine
is
cultivated
in
Portugal
in
four
ways.
{
I
)
By
being
trained
round
oaks
or
poplars
de
enforcado,
as
the
Romans
ulmisque
adjungere
vites.
(2)
By
the
terrace
system,
the
best as
(i)
is
the
most
picturesque.
(3)
By
bushes
in
rows,
with
the
intermediate
ground