Wine of the Week
I PROMISED recently to add to the list of four or five dry white ports that I recom- mended here in June. The one I had in mind is shipped and sold by Corney and Barrow of Old Broad Street, EC2, at 18s. 6d. a bottle, under the name 'Carinho'- which I gather is the Portuguese for a barrow, and intended as a pun. (Though I have heard of a know-all who claimed to know the Carinho vine- yards well.) Corney and Barrow call it simply a 'dry white aperitif,' omitting the word 'port' on the label, lest it should be thought a sweet wine. But it is a true port, from the Douro, and is very properly labelled 'Produce of Portugal.' Carinho is a pale gold in colour, and although rich and flavoury, is as dry as a dry sherry—to my mind a good appetiser, with a most distinctive taste.
CYRIL RA',
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