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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST

1959.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY MAIL FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK

Wine Tasting

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TO YOUR Heart's Content

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Be Done By Man

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Music by "MARTY" | Port wine tasting is a job whère man

boots both woman and machine,

At the Hammond Organ

• TO-NIGHT •

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World Famous Balancing Acts!

And

Tho machine that can taste port has not been invented und women have not successfully entered the field.

market, 10 per cent fa consumed In Portugal,

Guarding the good name of port is vital for many thousands "Women might sometimes of people, Soma 300,000 people have more sensitive palates than-live-in-the-Douro-River-region. men, but they don't have a good where the port wine grapes are enough wine memory," one port grown. And the port wine authority said.

grape is virtually the only crop the area produces.

And wine memory" is the key to being a successful taster. With a shake of a glass of port, a quick glonec at it against

background of diffused light, a sniff and, perhaps, a sip, a TABORI DUOalled faster can tell you its

On Their World

nie, type, and often the exact area comes from. Tour!

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THE WILD ONE

He

Tough Job

ean to that because to have his job he must have tasted, and remembered, many hundreds of different port wine types,

He does not get his practise drinking, however. The taster *pite out the wine he has sampled

Profitable

An official of the Port Vine Institute explained that con- siderable research had been done to find alternate crops for the region.

He said not even forestry provided a profitable alter- native.

"I seems that if on area is rich for part wine grapes, it is not for other crops," he said.

There is an explanation. The port wine region of the Dourd looking is in dry Inhospitable country. Many of the farms are hocked from the side of slopes, and steep mountain terraced off for cultivation.

The English

Because it is a lough job de- manding supreme concentration the lasters have a 24-hour week. The port wine firms employ their own tasters, usually one or two More than 60 per cent of the per frin,

Douro part wine farOS

dre

The Port Wine Institute em-mall holdings in Portuguese он the other ploys eight. Their job, as hands, Export described by one of them, is; To i band is largely in the hands of for because unsure that wines described as English arms, port wine pre port wine, and centuries the English have been port wine of good quality." the world's largest consumers of

port.

It is an Important task. Winc is the third mun export of Portugal, and port wine accounts for 10 per cent of the wine ex- ports.

from

comes

D

Port wine rigidly definert region of the Douro River Valley. The de- marcntion lines were set anore than 200 years ago in 1750.

Preserved

"It is the oldest demarcated wine nren in the world," one official salt. "The French de- fined their zones for wine types later."

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America is leading by four dollops over Russia -the world's second largest consumer, The Russians got the idea of mass-produced ice cream from the Americans before the last war. Favourite Russian ice includes Bolld

of pear,

bits

apple, or raisins. Manufacturers hope that if the hot spell continues for very much longer Britain, too, will soon rank among the big three ice-cream-eating nations (see graph). Cool Thought: Italy, long considered a nation of Ice-cream makers. Is way down the list.

London Express Bervice..

Missing Portraits Found

On The Same Canvas

New York.

THE only two life portraits of Thomas Jefferson painted by Gilbert Stuart, missing for more than 100 years, have been found on the same canvas,

FOUR COPIES

Some authorities who already have seen the powerful Jeffer- son likeness rank it with Stuart's famed Athenarum portrait of George Washington. The Jeffer known only by four coples made by Stuart in his old age to earn some quick money.

cort- ΕΦΤΙ

original was

even

EVIDENCE

When

Some of the English fam!- Hes have fived in Portugal for generations, but have re-

the Athenacum altered Jefferson's appearance, One of the most fantastic and mained, completely English

so he painted a new and soine. Their children ea to school in lories in American history Washington, Isck."" England, the sons often find was revealed by portrait artist: The outer portrait painted in what smaller portrait on top of their brides in England. TheyOrland Campbell, who found the Washington in 1005 when Jeffer the old. But he also failed to have their own cricket precious painting-on-top-of-a- son was President, is an arrest- deliver this portrait to Jefferson. The known history of the ground, their own hospital and painting in a lower east side art ing three-quarter portrait bust

portrait ended with Stuart's their own very exclusive shop. He and tils brother, in Stuart's nest style, The club,

Courtney Campbell, have spent grey, sandy-haired statesman, death in 1825., The Campbell's seven years quietis, authenti-dressed In a black coat and have found evidence that it Together with the Portuguese, eating the canvas before making stylisty white slock, atares passed to Stuart's daughter and they work closely to pull port public the discovery,

directly at the viewer with pale after her death into the collec- wine through slump in over-

hazel eyes that express a weary tion of a wealthy New Yorker,

Schultz. sens salon caused partly by

Christopher determination.

sold at change in world drinking habits

Campbell's expert recreation Schuliz'e estole was of the underpainting shows a auction in 1937, the canvas was The exclusivism of the part-people in many parts drink before meals nowadays

younger, less care-worn Jeffer- bought by art dealer Louis wine ares is jealously pré-more

that after and partly by heavy

son. The 57-year-old statesman D'Aras. served. It has been modified during the past 200 years but import duties in many countries.

was Vice-President when he sat The port wine men are

Stuart's previously for this keness in only to make the area smaller.

When Orland Campbell found Attempts to pass off as port,fident they will surmount their

Philadelphia studlo in 1800.

According to Courtney Camp- the painting in the shop of his wine made from grapes growing present problems as they have done others In the past. But

bell's research, Stuart falled to friend, D'Aras, his keen artist's outside the Douro Valley, are

they will not lower their "This painting has a equality finish or deliver the 1800 por-ye saw tell-tale evidence cuslly detected by the tasters.

standards.

that is quite ualque," Bald trait to Jefferson, although he the murface of another portrait "I just isn't port," one said.

inch-by-inch "Port wine is

cheap Orland Campbell, who has res- allowed engravers to copy it, underneath. An nol a To ensure there are no frauds

wine. It is a quality wine," they tored the age-worn canvas to Stuart agreed in 1805 to Bnish exploration by X-ray and Intra- all port wine must pass through

La near-original beauty. "Some-it from litu,

red ray at the Brooklyn Musoun Oporto itself where it gets a

revealed the carller portrait certificain of guaranice from the Port Wine Insitute. Ninety per

which tallied with the old en- grovings of the lost work cent of port goes into the export

The 1803 portrait has been established in the prototype of The four existing copies which owned by Bowdoin Collego, the old capital at Williamsburg, Va., millionaire Donald Straus nt New York; and Thomas Jefferson Coolidge of Boston, a Jefferson descendant. The Camp- bell brothers share ownership of the canvas with D'Arns' daugh- ter, Ana D'Aras of London

UPI.

say.

And the tasters are standing how the carlier painting under- The artist apparently found guard to see it stays that way.neath gives it a foundation and that time and the responsibili- richness that the later copies, ties of the Presidencey had UPL

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