This wine is one of the oldest in Spain and is, undoubtedly, the wine mentioned by Shakespeare as "sherris sack." The wine is very closely related to a wine made at Malaga and shipped under the name of Malaga de Color, or Brown Malaga. These wines are not really pure wines because they are made by mixing together a portion of the fermented grape juice with another portion of the concentrated grape juice reduced to the condition of a thick syrup. Very old Vino de Color commands a high price because but little of it goes a great way in flavoring the sherries of commerce. It is a product which enters into the composition of almost all the sherries of commerce and to which they owe chiefly their color. Although with increasing age fine vintage sherries would become dark in color, in all but exceedingly high-priced wines the Vino de Color is the color agent used. Of recent years this brand of blended sherry is shipped in large quantities to whisky-producing countries to be used in the compounding of whiskies. The wine itself is practically undrink-able in its natural state and strictly cannot be regarded as a product to which the term wine unmodified could be properly applied.