As Spain succeeds France geographically, so it follows it in the excellence of its vinous productions. Throughout all ages this country has been distinguished for its wines. But the Spaniard’s chief glory under heaven is in the preparation of white dry fortified wines such as Sherries, and sweet wines such as _Malagas_. In the province of Andalusia is situated Xeres de la Frontera, and the convent of _Paxarete_, which produces a rich sweet sparkling drink. Here, too, are the vines of the _vino secco_ and the _abocado_, and _Rota_,[38] which produces Andalusia’s best red wines. Here are _Ranico_, _Moguro_, or _Moguer_, a cheap light wine, _Negio_, and the capital _Seville_. Catalonia yields a large quantity of red wine shipped to England mostly as a drink for the general. The _Malaga_ of Granada is well known. Sherry[39] wines are, or ought to be, the products of Cadiz, including Xeres de la Frontera, San Lucar de Barrameda,—where _Tintilla_, an excellent Muscadine red wine, is manufactured,—Trebujena, and Puerto de Santa Maria. The celebrated wine known as Manzanilla[40] is made in San Lucar de Barrameda. _Val de Peñas_[41] wines are commonly red. After the perfection of age, this celebrated product of La Manche[42] is, in the opinion of Redding, equal to any red wine in the world. Much wine of Catalonia is now imported into England as Catalan Port. Borja produces a luscious white wine. The country about Tarragona on the road to Barcelona is almost wholly occupied with wine making. _Beni-Carlos_, _La Torre_, _Segorbe_, and _Murviedro_, are all fair wines of Valencia. Alicant produces an excellent red wine, _vino tinto_, strong and sweet; when old, this wine is called _Fondellol_. Vinaroz, Santo Domingo, and Perales, offer red wines of moderate excellence. The best wines of Aragon are _Cariñena_ and the _Hospital_, from the vine which the French call _Grenache_. In Biscay, at Chacoli, a _vino brozno_, or austere wine, is produced in large quantity. The best is made at Vittoria, and called _Pedro Ximenes_.[43] Fuençaral, near Madrid, offers a good wine seldom exported. The most famous wine-growing district of Granada is that of Malaga, termed Axarquia. This produces _Malagas_, _Muscatels_, _Malvasies_, and _Tintos_. The red wines called _Tinto de Rota_ and _Sacra_ are unfermented with only enough spirit for preservation, and are commonly advertised in our wine circulars as “suitable for sacramental purposes.” _Guindre_ is flavoured with cherries from which it derives its name. Into this wine, as into some others, the Spaniards are wont to put roasted pears, under the conceit that thereby it is much improved in taste and rendered more wholesome. Hence arose the proverb _El vino de las peras dalo a quien bien quiéras_. _Malaga Xeres_ is often known in England as the pale, gold, dry Sherry,[44] as the wines of Alicant, Benicarlos, and Valencia are sold as a rich and fruity Port. The