Excerpt from La Bodega: The Fruit of the Vine To him the fruitful Grape is a source of bitter fruit indeed; he summons the humble and lowly to forsake the illusory joys of the beverage - to endeavor and dis pute in a noble pursuit that is far from vain. It is of interest to note that the city about which the action of the novel centers - Jerez de la Frontera - gives the name to sherry. The former spelling of Jerez was with an X, anciently pronounced like sh. The full name of the town signifies Jerez of the Frontier. It is situated some fifteen miles from Cadiz. Another point of interest in connection with wine-manufacture in this district is that the bodegas, or wine-sheds, are above ground. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.