"Malmsey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Formerly, there was made at Teneriffe a great quantity of Canary sack, which the French call Vin de Malvesie; and we, corruptly after them, name Malmsey (from Malvesia, a town in the Morea, famous for such luscious wine). In the last century, and still later, much of this was imported into England; but little wine is now made there, but of the sort described ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 (of 18) • Robert Kerr |
