9. _Tire_, if not of Syrian growth, was probably a Calabrian or Sicilian wine, manufactured from the species of grape called _tirio_. _Tyre_, vinum Tyrense, ex Tyro insula. Withals.
10. _Ozey._ Though this is placed among the "commodities of Portugal" in some verses inserted in the first volume of Hackluyt's Voyages, p. 188--Her land hath wine, _osey_, waxe, and grain,--yet, says Henderson, "a passage in Valois' Description of France, p. 12, seems to prove, beyond dispute, that _oseye_ was an Alsatian wine; _Auxois_ or _Osay_ being, in old times, the name constantly used for Alsace. If this conjecture is well-founded, we may presume that _oseye_ was a luscious-sweet, or straw-wine, similar to that which is still made in that province. That it was a rich, high-flavoured liquor is sufficiently shown by a receipt for imitating it, which may be seen in Markham (_English Housewife_, 1683, p, 115), and we learn from Bacci p. 350) that the wines which Alsace then furnished in great profusion to England as well as different parts of the continent, were of that description. In the 'Bataille des Vins' we find the 'Vin d'_Aussai_' associated with the growths of the Moselle." _Osey_ is one 'Of the commoditees of Portingalle,' _Libelle_, p. 163.
11. _Torrentyne of Ebrew._ Is this from Tarentum, Tarragon, or Toledo? Whence in Ebrew land did our forefathers import wine? Mr G. Grove says, "I should at first say that Torrentyne referred to the wine from some wady (Vulgate, _torrens_) in which peculiarly rich grapes grew, like the wady of Eschcol or of Sorek; but I don't remember any special valley being thus distinguished as '_The_ Torrent' above all others, and the vineyards are usually on hill-sides, not in vallies."
12. _Greke Malevesyñ._ "The best dessert wines were made from the Malvasia grape; and Candia, where it was chiefly cultivated, for a long time retained the monopoly," says Henderson. He quotes Martin Leake to explain the name. Monemvasia is a small fortified town in the bay of Epidaurus Limera. "It was anciently a promontory called Minoa, but is now an island connected with the coast of Laconia by a bridge. The name of _Monemvasia_, derived from the circumstances of its position (+monê embasia+, single entrance), was corrupted by the Italians to _Malvasia_; and the place being celebrated for the fine wines produced in the neighbourhood, _Malvasia_ changed to _Malvoisie_ in French, and _Malmsey_ in English came to be applied to many of the rich wines of the Archipelago, Greece, and other countries." (_Researches in Greece_, p. 197.) _Maulmsey_, vinum creticum, vel creteum. Withals.