1876 Facts About Sherry by Henry Vizetelly

Facts about Sherry.

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blended beforehand,ten gallons being taken from one cask and ten from another, and so on through the entire criadera. At the extremity of the old Moorish quarter of Jerez are the bodegas of Messrs. Vergara,Robertson, and Co., originally in the occupation of the late Senor Domecq. Passing through a small courtyard, one enters the principal cellar, a lofty, mde, and "well-proportioned structure—at one time the largest that existed in Jerez—-with the unusual appurtenance of a gallery at the farther end, erected for the accommodation of Ferdinand VP!., father of the ex-Queen Isabella, when he honoured this bodega "with a visit and tasted its rare old -rintages. Messrs. Vergara and Co. are famous for wines of the old Jerezano type —superior rayas of rich flavour, ample body, and perfect rotundity. In connection with the Vergara bodegas is an extensive cooperage,and arcades crowded to the roof with new casks passing through one or other of the usual seasoning processes.

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