Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-12
Foreign wines.

Some European inventors seem to be
busy in concocting spurious wines.
Some OF these mixtures are made with
such skill that an analysis shows no sub
stances foreign to the genuine juice of
the grapo--except that undefnable some
thing which only dame nature can sup
ply. In England recently letters patent
were issued to an inventor for the manu-
facture OF "winc." The compound
consists Of cane-sugar and glucose, col
ored with dye.woods, orchilla used,
some paste, and the like, and is sub
jected to fermentation. In late num-
ber Of Galiganfs Messenger we find
.--thv following;
In our last issue we gave an account
Of meeting of the Paris retailers OF
wine, in which they endeavored to show
that they were the victims OF intolora-
BILE oppression. They would have tho
public to believe that they are more
''sinned against than SHINING" The fol-
lowing story, told by Mr.. Scholl in the
Epenement, goes far to provethe contrary;
"Breakfasting at home recently" he
says, 81 ate certain rogaon saute,
which l shall not soon forget. At the
third mouthful ! stopped. My palate
aud lips were on FIRE. What have
you put in this sauce?' asked my mod.
est Gordon blue. 'Sir, as l had not the
key of the cellar. bought bottle OF
Chablis at tho grocer's for lfr. SOC. is
there any leftY Yes, about half.
Bring me that Chablis. l poured a
spoonful into my glass, continues Mr..
Scholl, ''to taste this new sort of wine.
1t had no taste. There was no trace
even Of raisins, nor Of brandy. But l
burned my tongue with il and that
horribly. had the stuff analysed by o
chemist. 1t was merely water mixed
with sulphuric acid The maker had
not even gone to the expense of q bunch
Of raisins or q few drops Of alcohol.
This composition is sold openly at lfr.
5Oc. a bettle, under the name of Chdbtis
Superieur. What must inferior Cha
blis bey
II is well known to travellers that in
Paris itself ordinary wines are inferior
to those TO be obtained in the neighbor-
ing country, and this is due to the fact
that all articles of food or drink brought
into the capital are subjected to heavy
octroi duty. A franc and a-half NEARLY
thirty cents) should purchase, at Paris,
bottle Of white wine of very good
quality, but 1t does not. All OF this
Justification, for II cannot be dignified
with the name Of adulteration, in Eu-
rope sooner or later will put money in
the purses Of our vignerons and vintners.
Year by year the quality of California
wines improves, and this is but natural,
for experience is teaching us what grapes
to plant in this soil and what in another,
as well as the notifications of European
methods Of treatment in making the
several varieties of wine rendered neces-
sary by different conditions of climate.
All of these essentials to success we are
learning with the quickness character
istic of Americans The rising genera
tion does not uptilt its nose at American
wines because they are Americans, as
the noses of many men still with us,
who stick to Burgundy, and Claret, and
Hook, merely because they are supposed
to be such in the present year of grace
as they were in the time of their
babyhood. are uplifted. Before the end
of the century our native wines will
need no bush at home, and abroad will
drive such counterfeits as we have re-
ferred to from their own markets. The
honest juice of the grape, taken in mod
GRAFTON, hurts no man healthy in mind
and body. When people comes to
manufacture such stuff as is manufac-
tured in Europe, no rational person will
object to its prohibition.