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Sherry.
has
obtained
a
ripe
age
in
bottle,
and
has
acquired
some
bouquet,
it
is
undeniably
—
whatever
may
be
urged
to
the
contrary
—
a
noble
and
generous
beverage,
and
among
Englishmen
will
never
fail
to
find
admirers/’
The
other
best
known
of
the
Portuguese
wines
are
Calcavella,
a
white, sweet,
muscatel
wine
;
Bucellas,
also
a
white
wine,
made
from
vines
transplanted
from
the
Rhenish
districts
;
and
Lisbon
wine
:
these
two
latter,
which
are
rich
and
dry,
are
grown
in
and
near
Lisbon.
Sherry
.
—
We
now
come
to
the
well-known
white
wines
of
Spain,
familiar
to
us
under
the
designation
of
Sherry.
They
derive
this
name
(an
anglicised
mode
of
pronouncing
Xeres)
from
Xeres
de
la
Frontera,
a
town
in
Andalusia,
the
frontier
town
of
the
Christians
during
the
occupation
of
Cadiz
by
the
Moors,
from
which
port
it is
distant
about
16
miles.
Sherry,
properly
so
called,
is
the
produce
of
the
vineyards
of
the
triangular
district
formed
by
Xeres
de
la
Frontera,
Santa
Maria,
and
San
Lucar
de
Barrameda
;
the
vine
district
is
about
1
2
miles
square,
and
watered
by
the
rivers
Guadalquivir
and
Guadalete.
The
fine
dry
wines
of
the
Xeres
dis-
trict
were
well
known
in
this
country
during
the
sixteentli
and
.seventeenth
centuries.
The
poets
and
writers
of
that
period
make
frequent
mention
of