ITALIAN WINES. GERMAN WINES. 6/ 
to the inhabitants an annual revenue of more than 
200,000/. sterling per annum. We import from Spain 
a harsh and inferior kind of red wine, which, duty free, 
sells for only IOL or 15/. per pipe of 126 gallons; but 
the territory of Alicant produces a very rich and excel- 
lent kind of red wine. The sweet red wine which we 
call Tent is a Spanish production; chiefly imported from 
Cadiz, and in hogsheads of about sixty gallons each. 
It is made from the juice of a particular kind of grapes, 
which are not used for this 'purpose until some time 
after they have been perfectly ripe. 
(d) ITALIAN WINES. Notwithstanding the ancient 
celebrity of many of the wines of Italy, by far the 
greater part of what are now manufactured in that coun- 
try are thin and bad. Certain vineyards on mount Ve- 
suvius, however, still have great celebrity for a luscious 
red wine called Lachryma Christi. 
(e) GERMAN WINES. Germany produces many ex- 
cellent wines, of which Tokay, Hock, Rhenish, and 
Moselle, are the most celebrated. Tokay has its name 
from a town in Hungary, near which it is chiefly 
made. The quantity of this wine is so small that, even 
on the spot where it is manufactured, it is sold at a very 
high price. It is made by mixing with the common 
grapes a portion of luscious, half-dried, and shrivelled 
grapes; the latter being absolutely necessary to constitute 
the peculiar quality of the wine. The two kinds of grapes 
are pressed separately, and the juice is afterwards 
mixed, fermented, and strained through a cloth or sieve 
into the barrels in which it is to continue. The best 
Tokay does not long remain in the place where it is 
made, a great portion of it being sent into the cel- 
lars of the nobility in other parts of Hungary. Tokay 
is certainly a fine wine, but is no way adequate to the 
price for which it is sold. Several years ago it could 
not be purchased, even in Hungary, for much less 
than half a guinea of English money per bottle ; and yet 
there are few Englishmen, who, except on account of its 
