Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-09-05
0Murtester DaiIp Spp.
From the Genesee Farmer.
Wine Making.


States is fast becoming business of great i'm
portance, and will probably in time exceed
that of foreign countries, as we now have ma
tive grapes from which wines are made equal
i'll quality to those Of France and Italy.
The principal wine making districts at
present are in Ohio and Missouri. Within Is
miles of Cincinnati, about $50 acres of land are
devoted to vineyards. Mr.. Nicholas Long.
worth, of Cincinnati, is the pioneer in wine
making on this side Of the Atlantic, and is now
able to rest from his lab0rs on a fortune made
in the business but, though well advanced in
years, he still continues to make wines as eX
tensively as ever, rather as means of pleas
ure than Of profit. He has two immense Gel.
lars, one under the other, each capable OF hold
ing from $4,000 to 10000 casks Of wine. He
keeps from 100000 to 100000 bottles of wine
constantly on hand piled up upon their sides,
supported by laths laid crosswse. His wine
sells at wholesale at an average of one dollar
per bottle.
The manner of making the wine is as fol-
lows The ripest grapes are picked, and all
decayed ones thrown out to make interior
wine or vinegar. The fruit is then mashed up
in tub with a masher or FOUNDER, then they
must (mashed fruit and juice be put into a
small mill, not unlike our portable cider mills,
and the juice pressed out, and is really to be
placed in the cellar Immediately, in order to
pass through fermentation, which is the first
process in the manufacture of wine after the
must is expressed.
Mr.. Longworth grows but very small por.
ton of the grapes from which his wines are
made, but buys the expressed juice from a
large number OF grape growers in his vicinity,
who carry it to him in casks as soon as pressed
out, receiving the market price therefor, as
farmers do for their new cider when carried to
Market but at a much higher rate-say from
SIS to $40 per cask Of thirty gallons.
Mr.. L0ngworth has immense reservoirs in
to which he empties the juice brought of diff
ferent grape growers, so that his wine shall, to
the extent Of each reservoir be ofone general
quality. When reservoir is full, which is
effected from the purchases of two or three
days, lie draws its contents off into large casks
to pass through the termenting process, which
usually requires two or three weeks, when the
casks are bunged up perfectly tight, and allow
ed 10 remain till the following spring, when
they are racked off, the casks re-purified with
burning sulphur, and the wine then returned
into them to be fined. Tie filming process con.
sists merely in beating up the whites OF doz.
en- hens eggs for each cask mixing them thor.
oughy with the wine, first having beat the
eggs, after the primary beating, in half gal.
lon OF the wine, TO facilitate their mixing prop.
erIy with the wine in the cask. In the follow.
ins ian we %l,'G NJ, n 10y " TotI'e I'in
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adds greatly to their value
Itl is common remark among grape grow
ers that poor man cannot be wine maker,
because it requires great capital in the bust
ness, in order to give the wines sufficient age J;
hence it is that most of the Germans and other
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fopr bnndred oallons of vine On so,,a ~.
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may ysanS ~ oiims 49,. ,. h.
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80, ioi tne .i"' We nv Poe
seeseu IN iecel1y any variety vi grape sum
cien'y naiuy aiu iiPenins suLncieHt!y carry
III t'e se"eo"' " 'u'i',t Vi pia"tl"s Nl"ey"lu us
III Hore nor'lern clluiate out t.leIe Is no
eoou Ieasoh no" why the s'a'e ol NE" lork
may not become as great "lhe-prouuclhg
country as any portion OF Europe.
ne Dela"are grape Is sald 10 make an eX-
celent "lhe' ana lhe concord know from
experience auorus VINE superior III quailty
10 tnat =, 9ianc from the oalawpa grape, while
t,ie yieiu u run Is luy uouole 70 t'ie acre VI
'nat Faiie'y leee wv va, leeIes iiPen no III
cehIrai anu hotlneln Ne" NJ iiol' .ie Aotn
OF oeptetlpel u oot1oei - anu may NC re-
lieu oil ioi d SURE an" Pio'ino Ciop e'Iiy SEA
sou py protecting tle vines III ""''ei W eot-
erIi'g lneih WIN nc" inoes Va al tt.
1houeh tiie Two ii''ruleeV grapes vi '".ue 'ia.
we ilaNe yes ~ ootiie ''te
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DIS d mater y. Pruue"Ve' '',o ',nes ~ "
protec.eu iro'ii NV eii'uei 1o'h " Apiii
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