This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... i wines, some sweet as well as dry. The malmsey is very rich, and brings a high price. Sercial is from the Rhine grape, and brings a price equal to the malmsey. The island also produced a wine formerly called' Verdona, a sweet vintage, but known to dealers as green malmsey. Some good Madeiras it must ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... i wines, some sweet as well as dry. The malmsey is very rich, and brings a high price. Sercial is from the Rhine grape, and brings a price equal to the malmsey. The island also produced a wine formerly called' Verdona, a sweet vintage, but known to dealers as green malmsey. Some good Madeiras it must be remembered are pale when young, and take a brown hue by age, while in others it is just the reverse. The wine must not, therefore, be judged of from colour alone. Madeira mellowed in the country is too often done artificially, and therefore imperfectly. teneriffe, vidonia. Many persons have supposed, that the wines of Teneriffe are imported into Madeira, and passed off as low wines of the island. This is not true, as the merchants and growers there, would soon detect a practice ruinous to them. There are inferior growths enough in Madeira to supply all the trash that ever comes to the market under the false appellation of first-class wines. Teneriffe is an agreeable wine, inferior in strength and body to Madeira, and the flavour very distinguishable. I val de penas. 29 The wine formerly called Verdona, or Green Malmsey, is no longer made in these islands; but Palma produces a rich malmsey. Only about six thousand gallons of these wines are imported, and the merchants will readily accommodate the buyer who finds them to his taste--they are reasonable in price. Vidonia, so well known in England, is a Teneriffe wine, and is often adulterated here, and sold for Madeira; but this is only done by retail dealers, with bitter almonds and clarified sugar. Genuine Vidonia is a good, pleasant, wholesome wine for the table, and reasonable in price; but even to get this wine good, we must repeat, buy only of merchants of reputation, and pay a good...
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