1876 Facts About Sherry by Henry Vizetelly

Facts about Sherry.

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during the first four years of its youth,and had afterwards been on a solera for a period of eight years, was of excellent quality, stni the wine which especially commended itself to our taste was a splendid fine,some ten years old,from the Santa Cecilia vine yard, and which to great freshness and softness of flavour and remarkable strength united a most captivating fragrance. Among the more curious wines were some very old Jerezano of singular meUo^vness from a solera established by Don Juan Sanchez about a century ago, a venerable and highly-concen trated moscatel which had more of the character of a liqueur than a wine,a delicate and rare wine the produce of the small moscatel grape from the Soledad vineyard, and several fines, amontillados, and pasados of very refined flavour,the soleras of which were stored in the Bodega del-huerta, one of the old Moorish towers which rise at intervals above the battlemented walls on this side of Jerez.

OLD 3IOOEISH TOWEBS AJTD BATTLEMENTS AT JBEEZ—BUTTS OF SnEHBT ON

THEIE WAT TO THE TEOCADBEO.