Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-28
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ssieet suggestions for People whe Look on
the Wine when Il q Red.
At one Of the coming banquets in s..
Louis only American wines are to De used.
Red wine or champagne with duck may
be said to be an everlasting eonundrum.
Peach brandy, such as they have In the
South, Is admirable for curing insomnia
Hungarian wines are gradually creeping
in at dinner parties. but just how far to
serve them puzzles some people.
In Boston, gostronomically unsophisti-
Gated Boston, they say sherry wine should
be held until the last and goes with the
cheese"
Some of the Rhine wine supplied to the
imperial table at Berlin comes from private
cellars at Cloister Erbaeh, aud the price Is
fixed by sworn appraisers. 1t sometimes
costs as much as Sc bottle, but having re-
gard to the labor expended in its produc-
tan, the careful selection of the grapes by
skilled hands, etc, the price Is not very
high.
According to the Ardhir fur Hygiene a
very profitable industry in the manufacture
of sherry wines is being carried on at Ham
burg for the English aud Dutch markets.
In superior" grade ofit-sold in Ham.
burg--there was found small portion OF
Spanish wine, but the phosphate and tar
trates ofgood sherry were replaced BY table
salt Since sherry has become bar
wine" in England the demand has largely
increased and much adulterated and artii'
cial wine has been imported there.
DR.. Landerer writes t. the Drug News
that the Greek wines are prepared from
pure grape juice, and are the strongest OF
all Wines--their percentage OF alcohol being
from 10 to l6 They are thought to be
we'll adapted for the Improvement OF Ameri-
can and European wines. The Rsstlnst
wines, which are drunk by hundreds OF
thousands of people 10 Greece and Asia
Minor, have been known from the days OF
Homer. The Brazilians have begun to i'm.
port these wines largely. The fruitfuluess
cf the Greek vines is accounted for BY the
fact that they remained tree from phyliox
era.
Cid Madeira wine hiss always been popn.
ar in Washington, ESPECIALLY on the tables OF
The justices of the Supreme Court. For
many years supplies were obtained from old
mercantile houses in Alexandria, which had
made di. ect impor,ations prior to the Re-
,oluGon, aDd-in November, 1852, mauy
Washington cellars were replenished at the
sale Of the private stock of the late Josiah
Lee of Baltimore. Fifty demijohns OF
various brands of Madeira were struck Oft
Il. prices ranging from s24 to Sl9 per gal
ION. and one lot commanded $3.50 per
bottle, which, at five bottles TO the gallon,
is at the rate Of $3.50.
One of the industries of France is the
ma kipg OF wines from raisins, which is car
red on especially (accordinE to the Rer"e
%rsEfi6guc) at Marseillcs, Bordeaux and
.ircv. About 10000 toHs of raisins are
ra, orted into France from the neighborlng
! in countries and Syria, costing nearly
--ij0O,OOO. BY softeniugiu water, and the
aGditon Of sugar..and alcohol, harmless
vine il Produced, Of which no less than
sec 600 hCctoltres arc made. Another
}ojge is to treat the settings, the resldum
81 tie native hayyests Of Spain, Portugal,
sicily, etc, with sugar, alcohol and water,
aud make from the compound what is
called "second.vat wines. Thus France, in
spite OF the phylloxers, retains her position
rs the greatest wine-exporting country in
he world.