Blanquette de Limoux derives its name from the species of grape it is produced from, and which we believe to be identical with the malvoisie, or malmsey.
"Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines"
Henry Vizetelly
Bonneval made me a present of twelve bottles of malmsey from Ragusa, and of twelve bottles of genuine scopolo-a great rarity, with which I made a present in Corfu which proved very useful to me, as the reader will discover.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
When she had exhausted her amorous fury she threw herself into a bath, then came back, drank a bottle of malmsey Madeira, and finally made her brutal lover drink till he fell on to the floor.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt