It is difficult to describe the character of Port wine. By many it is regarded as heavy and of a character to promote gout. In olden days when an English gentleman was rated it was as a "One-bottle," "Two-bottle" or "Three-bottle" gentleman, according to the number of bottles of Port he would consume during and after his dinner. This heavy drinking of Port is no longer possible, both because of the increased number of drinkers and the better knowledge of the principles of temperance which has been spread abroad. Port wine is of a deep purple-red color, with abundance of mineral product and a certain quantity of unfermented sugar and other un-fermentable substances, making a rather heavy extract. Among connoisseurs genuine Port, properly aged and handled, is reckoned second to no other wine, unless it be a few of the grand vintages of Bordeaux. If the Chateau Margaux, Chateau Lafite and Chateau Yquem and two or three of the Burgundy vineyards are excluded there is no other wine of a rank superior to the real vintage Port such as is produced in the Alto Douro.