The History of Ancient and Modern Wines , p. 296:⁠— “The Vernage⁠ ⁠… was a red wine, of a bright color, and a sweetish and somewhat rough flavor, which was grown in Tuscany and other parts of Italy, and derived its name from the thick-skinned grape, vernaccia (corresponding with the vinaciola of the ancients), that was used in the preparation of it.” Chaucer mentions it in the “Merchant’s Tale”:⁠— “He drinketh ipocras, clarre, and vernage Of spices hot, to increasen his corage.” And Redi, “Bacchus in Tuscany,” Leigh Hunt’s Tr. , p. 30, sings of it thus:⁠— “If anybody doesn’t like Vernaccia, I mean that sort that’s made in Pietrafitta, Let him fly My violent eye; I curse him, clean, through all the Alpha-beta.” ↩