i6 Lutz, Viticiilturo and Brewing. 



thern Arabia. He says: "Sometimes a comfortable landed 

 proprietor would invite us to pass an extemporary^ holiday 

 morning in his garden, or rather orchard, there to eat grapes 

 and enjoy ourselves at will, seated under clustering vine-trel- 

 lises, with palm-trees above and running streams around". 

 He further states; "The apricot and the peach, the fig-tree 

 and the vine, abound throughout these orchards and their fruit 

 surpasses in copiousness and flavour that supplied by the 

 gardens of Damascus or the hills of Syria and Palestine" i. 

 For a casual remark on vines in Ha'il see Palgrave, Narra- 

 ive of a Year s yourney through Central and Eastern Arabia, 

 London, 1866, Vol. I, p. 74. 



Wine grown in Arabia seems to have been generally of 

 a red color, judging from its designation damu-'z-ziqq ', i.e., 

 "blood of the slough'. *Amr Mu'allaqat 2 speaks of the saffron 

 color of the wine and Imr. 59, 10 compares it to gazelle-blood. 

 Lebid, IX, 11 mentions dark wine. From the blackish, old, 

 tightly bound wine-skin flows wine, which foams reddish in 

 the cup, Lebid, XVIII, 15. 16. Pure red wine, *-j-^ -Am^^^ 



Krenkow, F., The Poetical Remains of MuzaJjim al '^Uqaili, 

 Leiden, 1920, I, 13. Aged wine was highly esteemed. 'Abid V, 

 13, 14: "And ofttimes the wine, in fragrance like broken pieces 

 of musk long time has it spent in the wine-jar, year after 

 year' passing by have I quaffed in the morning before the 

 Dawn shone forth to our mirth', in the tent of a man rich in 

 bounty, pouring it freely to all" 3. Good wine was supposed 

 to heal headaches ^. Wine was quite frequently mixed with rain- 

 water, Lebid, XVIII, 16; XL, 47. 48; XLI, 1416 (wine mixed 

 with rain-water and bee-honey). Old wine mixed with rain- 

 water, also Kais ibn al-Hatim, ed. Kowalski, XIV, 17. The Pre- 

 Islamic Arabs prepared a punch from grape-juice by adding 

 spices and hot water \ A beverage, prepared from raisins, 



1) Palgrave, c. c. Vol. I, p. 59. 



2) Ham&sa, ed Freytag, p. 559. 



3) Lyall, Sir Charles, The Diwans of ^ Abui ibn al-Abras, of Asad and 

 ''Amir ibn at-lufail, of Amir ibn Sa sa o/i, Leyden, 1913. 



4) "^Alqama XIII, 9. 



5) 'Amr Mu'all. 2. Wine simply mi.xed with hot water, Lebid, X\'1I. 3S. 



