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My literary taste was tickled by the praise bestowed in the Augustan age on Rhætic grapes by Virgil: Et quo te carmine dicam, Rhætica? nec cellis ideo contende Falernis. I piqued myself on thinking that could the poet but have drank one bottle at Samaden where Stilicho, by the way, in his famous recruiting expedition may perhaps have drank it he would have been less chary in his panegyric.
"Vir ubi longum tepidusque præbet Jupiter brumas, et amicus Aulon, Fertili Baccho nimium Falernis Invidet uvis." Which translated means: En route, called on the Bey of Biscay. Found him in amiable temper not a bit rough. Lisbon delightful. Chatsworth not in it with the smallest flower-and-kitchen garden here. Dined at the "Brag" short for Braganza. Suddenly inspired wrote drinking song:
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