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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: false movement, and always to pile up their spoons as full as possible, until the once overflowing bowl was utterly void. The vintagers at Torre Breva managed to get through 360lbs. of bread daily, which had to be fetched from San Lucar, besides 6lbs. or 7ibs. of grapes per head, equivalent in the whole to upwards of twelve butts of mosto. As, unlike Brillat-Savarin, they took their wine in the form of pills, none other was allowed them, and as onion soup is not particularly provocative of garrulity, the meal passed off in comparative silence. Appetite appeased, the men puffed away at their cigarettes, and then proceeded to unroll the esteras hanging on their respective pegs and stretch themselves full length upon them, soon to be overcome by sleep, which?with the thermometer at 90?wrapped them round about, as their compatriot Sancho Panza has it, like a warm cloak. LOOK-OCT HUT IN THE TOKBE EKLTA VTNErABD. chapter{Section 4II.?The Bodegas Op San Lucae De Babbameda. Wine-making at San Lucar?The Wine Bodega of the South of Spain?Scuor Hidalgo's Wines and Vineyards?Manzanilla Soleras?Mode of Rearing the Wine?The Manzanilla Grape?Gipsy Concert at San Lucar. Having seen manzanilla made in the vineyard I was anxious to ascertain whether any different mode of vinification was practised in the town, and, with that view, visited several of the pressing-houses in San Lucar de Barrameda, where, judging from the constant procession of mules with baskets of grapes from the surrounding vineyards which day after day threaded the narrow streets, a considerable quantity of wine was evidently being made. These mules are generally encumbered in regular Spanish fashion with more or less useless trappings, and if the whole of them are not adorned with bells the leading mule of the team wi...Read More