THE VINEYARDS OF THE WORLD. 45 



style or quality of a wine, but also and 

 chiefly the country and district of origin of 

 that wine. There is some red wine made in 

 Spain, in Cape Colony, Australia and Cali- 

 fornia, which may have the same colour 

 and the same alcoholic strength as Port, 

 but no such wine should rightly be sold as 

 Port, even with the adjunct of the locality 

 it really comes from. 



The hills of the Douro valley are very 

 high and often very steep, but they are 

 covered from base to summit with vines, 

 chiefly planted in tiers and terraces which 

 it has only been possible to make by cutting 

 or blasting the hard mountain rock. Vines 

 grown in the valleys produce less fine 

 wine than those planted higher up 

 the hills, though the latter, if too high 

 up, run the risk of being scorched, the 

 sun beating with merciless severity on the 

 rock. 



