1960 The U K B G Guide to Drinks (3 rd edition revised)

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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