"Chocolate-coloured" Quotes from Famous Books
... many varieties of Cyprus wines, there is one prevailing rule: the white commanderia, a luscious high-flavoured wine, is grown upon the reddish chocolate-coloured soil of metamorphous rocks. The dark red, or black astringent wines, are produced upon the white marls and cretaceous limestone. The quantity produced is large, and the dark wines can be purchased retail in the ... — Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879 • Sir Samuel W. Baker |