New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-25
r,vyxLaND GRAPE WINE.

v-sieyeinud Grapes superior y"
...:.not; (rupes-Froit anu WING
&. co,d and Hsot Climates.
from Our Special Ccrresponden' 49, - ,eer
''-' noycolA. Union Co., IL, Aug. H. ROO
A. Cleveland / called on the cdiIofS Oh
~. .r,,.r who NJ ale sharp agricultural phper'
,~.rtod +. know what was goinr on resarding VINO
LIN in tie city and vicinity Col Harms s'id Seso'
,-er. making wine mt lie would take ne TO tue
80. ., George Leick. who is q practical man ana was
,.on.bt Nm TO the busiI ess in Germany "heh we
me ON. MI. Fairehild. Of the editors SAID
.had het,er take car ia c ct the Wedde House. L
'Sad ifit Was so far. No; stll so far We probably
- no. he able TO make our way beck without help
g. ves We ID been in wine cellars before
~ ne saw few words aboat Cleveland. 1t con-
Ain. GO 900 inhabi; ints Les good trade Win ONO
nd Indiana and 1t mauu,a,tales pretty largely Much
f The copuer oIo ON Lake SUPERIOR is smeacd mere
In MANY re.pocts il Is very handsome town. d'upt
xbetbey ary city in tie world has liner street
thsn Euclid st. i know there is more in New'fofh
,uperior There is NOR OBJ rprse among the people.
srhev o,gani,ed tie "Sanit ny Commission and
"Union League" Here is the first tiuit Preserving
onse end here is the center Of tho cre1test number
sfynevards on ills contIet. In tie vicinity are the
Western Reserve dar whore vast amounts OF cheese
Alta coulmon.lo looking com orcal house. something
ptes Wholesale gro, cry store We found Mr. Leick.
BE is ehout s. spesss sish tOlerabl, We'll and las
a. srnoarauee O. elo gng TO the s.. Louis Fremont
class Of Germans This is important element IN our
.onuotjon. / am convinced Tat within them are
germs Which hereafter will pioluce Industrial and
social revelations in our untry. They are educated
snterpr sing social, PRACTICAL radical. lHer number
f. increasing. Tie pre- are the way for Others some
bring much money.
Mr. Lick has eighteen acres in vineyard eight miles
east Of Cleveland near Or. Dunhams. He has three
vine press Is. c.c Kei's Island, oe at Sandusky
and one in Cleveland. He makes some wine from the
Isabelle. The Clinton makes good wine and Is similar
TO the German red wife, in fac. Germans cannot tel
the difference between it and the Cld Country wine
Ye values he Clinton; other grape bears better; II
Ekes to run On trees. Tie Isa ella no does not like to
nix with other kinds because 1t is earliest ripe and
fermeu,s soonest. BY it eli il makes fair Wine Last
rear h ried 20 lbs. OF the ord. and does Pot Ike
a. and ve the Hermann folks value it 10 mix with Nor
Cons Virginia
The Towing is his account Of the percentage q wine
IN dierout grales lie Uses the scale OF Oashe wheh
tanges ffoIn 10 rs degrees: Concord owed from
Is to 20 per cent; Norton's Nr-ui' suddenly. 10;
Catawba from 50 90; sbe,lo from 90 to Go; Cliaton
SuU ana SOmctlme66 lVJ. o. ut WIS
Colbtful.
The amount Of acid in the must o. d erent grapes he
tests by Gesters acid eter ranging from TO 20 in
addition Is tlernome VIII ch ID used in making
Che trial when the must at DEGREES Fahrenheit In
90 degrees of Catawbs saccharine matter there are
from to Of acid; in Isabella to TO- NoriJns Viz
einia (. Delaware. St Concorl. 8.
Last year lie bought raj o. TO make from nine to ten
thousa1d gallons of wine; oyears ago from eighteen
60 twenty thousand calons. he says positively there
Gan be TO Limit the market good prices. Last year
most OF the grapes were engaged early in August.
Ehis year buyers already around trying TO con
erect.
NJ Leick has large cellars under his store, where
IRE huge CASKS bat be has regular wine cellar such
Is at Hermann Those cellars looS like vast railroad
suverts walled Up at eDd and with an entry and
Two doors in the o.her. T5ey cost from three to five
hundred dollars. II the wine is Kept in his store
Curing tie year it viii rapidly fer ent, AMI get what
h called age He can Il all the wine he makes during
he year Should he keep much over be would require
proper wine cellar Stu lie has some old stocks so
Il to have different in the bus ne s. Mr.. Leck
e,ade this statement: IT, or five years to come the
people OF this county pl ut vineyards they have for
Eve years past tho will be wine and grapes here
than il the old country.
he saws the grapes in Germany have only abou. half
y much acid as those in this country but the favor OF
American wine is rec tines stronger. The German
grapes yield a ont the same, but the skin Is thinner
khe soid is in tie thick skin OF the Caawba The sac
thsrine matter is about the SAFE. They do not get
half much wine from an acre Of grapes there
60 here for they have good crop only in eight
Pears AS regards the comparative quality Of the wine
lie could not decide much BENDS on taste bu, the
Vbu ntlv 81 IL.
whether kely's Island or The Cleveland grapes were
Best for vine lie said lie had tried all kinds and he
convinced that those on tie ridge abont two
tniles from the lac worth two cents pound
EsOre 20 make into wine.
Beside raising grapes largely he buys all that are
sfered. Last year he paid AVERAGE 70, cents
pound. hen he employs Urls to pick them over re-
tscting poor graIes and orally from u pounds Of
grapes he gets gallon OF wine. He puts in sugar
Or Other addition. II tie wine is sour matter 1t
will sell; but to make good wine he must have ripe
grapes.
Last year he sent Catawba grapes TO friend in Ger
Esuy. VIC submitted en to nmittee Of several
gentlemen without telling whence hey came While
tasting around they ush puzzled bat finally they
sonclulct them to be Hungarian grapes. When it WAS
tod they Cleveland grapes there WAS great aston
hhrnent to learn that tn lew country could produce
such good fruit.
Mr. Lcick SAYS he makes better wine than the Gin.
sinDati folks and Re give good reason which is. That
late grape does OF do as well in climate
IN cold one becarse the sweet late in the
teason. In climate the grape rpens before the
hot weather Closes the leaves drop or and there IL
Delicate aroma in the + nit Hence whatever may be
Gle climate the grown In for wine ghOuld be