The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-01-11
Ulle Uribune.
Wines and how they are made.


Dr. E. G. Dalton recently delivered an
address before the Temperance Commit
tee at Cinclnatti, Ohio, in which he pre-
seated the following curious facts -
The United States excel any other ma
ton in the use of champagne wine, con-
Stunning 1000, 600 BASKETS. How much
of this is supposed to be genuine? The
whole champagne district exports about
500, 900 baskets Russia takes 100, 600 !;
France, l62 900; Germany. I46. 900;
England, 200, 900 other countries, l00,-
900; leaving onlliI2, 900 baskets for the
United States. Hence there can be one
pure basket in SO ID 4 slim chance
that TO stale your money on. Madeira
produces 80. 900 barrels Of wine and Amer
lea drinks $4,000.
II other countries drink of this in the
sane ratio as ours, he must be lucky
dog who gets a genuine drink in Cincin-
natl. In 1866 tour firms reported in
New York to the commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue 225 900 gallons pure spirits
for the manufacture Of bogus wines. And
as this spirit composes only LILO to Is of
the new liquor, from two to four millions
of gallons of the vile stuff from those
firms is palmed off on unsuspecting ven
ders and drinkers. Authorizations are
common and sure.
4 little whiskey. alum, Brazil wool,
oak saw dust, filbert husks, lead, copper
as, bitter almond, cherry, laurel waters.
In cup of port wine, DR.. Cox found
water, cider, vinegar, or mixture of wa
ter and sulphuric acid with the juice of
clderberries, privet- berries, logwood, al
UNI, potash. sugar, spirits. In cup fisher
ry, Madeira water cider, wort-sulph SUI
gar, honey, orris-root. spirits. These
vile mixtures are favored with various
oils, such as lavender, cloves. cinnamon,
bergamot, rosemary, to initiate the flavor
of different wines. In port. Cyrus Red
ding found washings of brandy casks,
elder-berrics, logwood, salt of tartar,
green dragon, cudbeer. Thousands Of
dollars have been found invested in wiLe-
dealers cellars for articles used In max
ing wines, but not one dollar of grapes or
grape juice The frauds in bogus wines
are reckoned at $4,000, 900 annually 10
New York. Artisans do a big business
there in staining and crusting casks and
bottles, and making astringent.. extracts
for old port France and England are
doing the same business.
Under separate heads the doctor re-
fers to the brandy, rum, gin, whiskey,
ales and beers consumed by the Ameri
campo pulation, and presents very dark
picture Speaking Of beer the doctor
says: Genuine beer is as hard to End as
pure ale or porter. Not only are malt
and hop beers largely aduitegated, but
beers are made without malt or hops.
Sugar, honey, molasses aud liQuorice, are
used for malt; alum, opium, gentian,
quassia, aloes, cocculus, indicus, amara,
tobacco, and nux, for hops; saitpetre,
jalap, salt, maranta, green copperas,
marble dust, oyster-shells, egg shells,
sulphate of lime, hartshurn, saayings,
nut gals, potash, soda, &C.. to prevent
souring The beautiful cauIihower often
comes from green vitriol, alum and salt.
The smack of age, aud the tin.le to the
palate, and new beer is made old in a
few hours b7 oil of vitriol Take your
ale, beer and porter, if you will, but re-
snember its strength or In 'xicating qua
itics may be due to the deadly cocculous
5ndicus, foxglove, heabsne, multum,
and nux-vomiea, and the narcotic power
20 opium, tobacco, and grains of para
disc"