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U. K. B. G. GUIDE TO DRINKS
Frascati, Albana, Genzano
These wines come from the Province of Latium and are
white wines of good strength and good keeping quality,
which are to be found from around the walls of the Holy
City"of Rome.
Orvieto
A dehghtful white wine from the Trebbiano grape. Not
a fine wine but fresh and pleasant. From the town of
Orvieto, a hiUtop city in Central Italy in the province of
Umbria.
Capri
A white wine from the Greco grape is made on the
island of this name and on the mainland nearby. The
white is the more popular type, being dry with a light
golden colour.
Falerno, Lachryma Christi (Tears of Christ)
Similar to Capri wines, being made from the same grape,
but grown around Mt. Vesuvius.
Moscato di Siracusa, Malvasia di Lipari
The best two dessert wines apart from Marsala.
Marsala
This is a dessert wine from the province of Trapani in
Sicily, being a dark amber coloured wine of the sherry type.
Its introduction into England came about by a man
named John Woodhouse, who in 1773 introduced some
Trapani wine which he had fortified with Brandy,in order
to rival Madeira, the popular wine of that time. It was due
to the success of this wine that he eventually stayed in
Sicily to look after his interests there. Other people interes
ted in Marsala were Benjamin Ingham, who settled in
Palermo in 1805 and became a wine merchant in 1815. An
Italian named Vincio Florio started business in Marsala in
1825. These three firms are still in business at the present
day and are known as Florio & Co., Ingham Whittaker &
Co. and Woodhouse & Co.
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