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ON COLONIAL WINES. 
wine, the stimulating dram, which he sips, pregnant 
as it is with its 35 to 45 per cent, of spirit. The two 
things differ to to ccelo. 
I could have wished to insert a complete list of vines 
which yield the wine best known to Englishmen, but 
have been able to verify only' a few kinds, either here 
or in South Australia. 
SPANISH V ABIE TIES OF VINES KNOWN IN THE 
COLONIES. 
The grapes which enter into the Spanish wines we 
call sherries are, as the basis of sherry — 
1. Palomino Blanco. 
2. Pedro Ximenes. 
3. Temprana (meaning early) ; it differs apparently 
from palomino Blanco only in ripening 
earlier. 
4. Doradillo, a capital bearer. 
5. Jaen. 
With the solitary exception of Pedro Ximenes, I am 
not aware if any of the above kinds of vines have 
been successfully planted in Victoria. But there are 
plenty of places north of the Dividing Range where 
they would succeed — the old diggers' spoil-heaps about 
Huntly, for example — and probably yield a fine light 
wine in character not unlike Manzanilla. In South 
Australia they produce light wine somewhat of the 
above character and strength ; and to my mind, are 
among the most agreeable and distinctive in character, 
as white wines, that I remember to have seen from 
that colony. 
