Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-11-24

Gossip About wines.
Paris. October. 1861.
There ia good news for vine bibbers Good
news-but is is good newsg For many q good
fellow who supplies his frfcOds with Chamber
tin and Nuts Pommard. Chateau LATTE. Cha
teau Nsrgaux and Chateau LarOse must hence
forward content himself with humber names
The wine will remain the sane. The name will
be pebian. The liquor will not taste a. swee,
Deny the delicious flavor Of wine in graceful
bottle with cork so long aud slender there is
10 end 10 IT, ard labeled Chateau LATTE, you
write Yourself down an ass for these vintages
have been lauded nearly one hundred wears. IL
j. not much longer since the Marshal Duke de
Ricbelieu, who was cured by the bordeaux
wines. introduced them 10 the French Court
and complained OF the custom which had given
such choice wines TO menisls Think of the
famous fine" wines of Bordeaux passing as NJ
only for menias' throats But when bottle
bearing an unknown name IS placed before you.
il nav be called vinegar or yillsinous stuff with
out leaving any imputation on YOU. IL wears
no great mans livery and YOU take what liber
ties you please with II.
The owners Of the esteemed vintages through
out France are forming themselves into powerful
Joint stock companies for the protection of their
wines They will acquire powers Of bringing
suit, aud these powers they mean 10 use through
out the world 10 suppress AL sales of wines made
under fraudulent names No expense will be
/ spared to attain this end The consequence ct
this measure will be complete revolution in the
wine trade The custom now is TO use the
Rhoneish and Southern wines. which for the
+ most thick some of them are "a black - ink
and unpleasanty favored and the inferior wines
I Of other parts of France. 10 delite the finer
4 wines The latter mpsrt something Of theiI
flavor 70 the former, which are then pushed for
ward in the world n the genuine wine OF superior
! growth. snI sold accordingly An immense
/ quantity ct wine which goes forward IN the wOrlC
never receives even this aristocr,tic baptism =
! The wine aided 20 the nauseons Crane juice, II
commonly some Inferior wine Of the better class
! which has "A smack of the d" fine wine-ver,
much 81 you see . BODY servant Catching hi
masters pscaliarities. The excellence OF thes'
inferior wines when they are pure is astonishing
| TO a stranger
do rot believe ! exaggerate when | stat
that seveB-terths of the peasants of Burgund
drink better wine than mos; OF the Pom ard
which passes current in North America fc
Pomard. take Pomard because il Is one .
the more abundant fine" Burgundan wines
As Tor ChnInbe-,in 10 drop of il ever passed al
American throat There Is great deal Of ex
celent and cheap wine in France which neve
leaves the country, and still more which Deve
leaves France under its true name The effec
of the combined action OF TIE great wine pro
prietors will be TO make the public familiar viii
the name Of inferior wines which they hay
been drinking in an impure state under famou
names, and az prices which not warranted b.
the cost of the wines. Nobody viii pay Cham
bertIn prices for lie vim du pays of Burgundy
which he has been drinking al alOng for pur
Chambertin wine Wines will grow cheaper
: purchasers take "A little pains, wines will be Dur
chased purer than they can nov be got You
wine sellers had better be cautious The asso
citation intends sending agents everywhere VII
! orders TO prosecute all frauds, and the Frene
, Government will shortly issue instructions 4
their agents 90 give all possible support 70 M.
representatives, of the association.
a The proprietOrs OF brandy estates have form
cd themselves into similar association, an
have already commenced proceedings in Eng
land. said just now that no drop of Chamber
|, tin ever passed an American throat The state
ment may have seemed exaggerated to you.
have no statistics of the amount OF genuin
Chambertin wine made These statistics c
! some of the best Bordeaux wines which you NEE
, with everywhere from Baiiin's Bay to th
I-thmus Of Daren, on every hctel's wine Ii.
will let you into the extent of tie frauds perpe
, trated 10 the wine trade. The Chateau Maj
!. gaux belongs to Nine Aguado; the vintag
/, there j. between one hundred and one hundre
and ten casks annually; it never exceeds Oh
hundred and ten casks. There some tire
the consumption of the Ag,ado family, they ar
, numerous ard live we'll next reckon the cor
sumption of the wine bv the crowned heads {
: Europe: then reckon the orders given BY the ce
, ebrated gournlauds of Europe. the orders of sue
bankers a The ROthschilds Coutts MastermanI
etc Haven't YOU long since exhausted the 80
GOO bottles made in the best years am SUI
/, you have in New Orleans alone more =" Chatea
Margaux than Is made on Nine Aguado
A., estate.
= Conceive the quantities on sale in London. i
Paris There is not thirty two sous restauran
but has it ON its wine list,) in other continent.
cities, and lima CINE what chances YOU have {
j. taste Chateau Margaux. The Chateau Laffit
g belongs 10 Sir John Scott: he never makes aboy
$50 casks of wine year. even in the best yeal
d the vintsges range from 100 10 $50 casks: il
: never less than 100 and never mrre than ID
Z casks, saw the age vintage is l35 casks cot
l.. tanning in oil 5000 bottles Reckon yot
e chances OF moistenug pour cred lane" Wit
h Chateau Lsfte wine. Baron James de Roth
o child owns the Chateau Noutou: has vintage
T between 20 aud 20 casks The other day whe
the Kinc of Spain came here ne was served VII
r fine Santerne vine he 50 much please
q eith il that he ordered tun Of i The own.
3 had not a tan: he bad only barre lett Tn
J. ne bought. giving 81 - @ for Il, which IS at n
rate of 90 200 per tun When the Grand Duk
Constantine OF Russia was az Bordeaux in les
I, he tasted some Y9Gem vine of lci1. which
'f found excellent he purchased tun of it f
$ which he gave $4,000 ! think you are COZ
i WINGED now that your chances OF tasting fine
u French wines are small indeed Abandon thu
ambition and content yourself with the cheape
II purer aud ob-curer wines you viii hencesorwar
receive
Between the blankets.
= Some people take their 10 bed with then