The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-10-11
Wine par,ned Nv Electricity.

Capt Winchell, well known New
York newspaper writer, lately returned
from a Two years trip to Florida, has been
sojourning in Passaic for the asst week,
He dropped into Mr., Alfred Speers wine
vaults one day this week, and became en-
thusiastic over the purity and great pop
ularity of his wines, Mr. Speer has n
chieved success that Is marvellous, and
he Is justly entitled to a reputation well
earned after long and experienced ca
reer, Over 80 years ago Mr.. Speer, know
Ing the famous reputation of the grape
vines of which the genuine port wine is
made from the Douro valley, in Portugal,
obtained at considerable expense, 5000
of the vines which he set out He had
great trouble in acclimatizing the vines,
and finally. after much trial and labor got
200 under successful cultivation all the
others having died. From these he OBJ
tanned layers from which he has propoga-
ted and formed his 40 acres of handsome
" laid out vineyards. The Oporto grape
is small black variety, very much in
shape and appearance of our native wild
grape, sometimes called frost grapes.
They are only fit for making wine, beiHg
too small for table use, as they contain
iron and other medicinal properties, Civ
ing the wine dark color and body, it
has become valuable to physicians. who
have always recommended it TO invalids
and others, when it could be obtained
pure. An article labeled Port Wine is
extensively sold, but it lisa dangerous Ii
qui,i, and more injurious than beneficial,
when adulterated with logwbod and u
hundred other Drugs that are used to
counterfeit the genuine article Mr..
Speer also makes specially ofunfermen-
ted grape juice from this OIorto grape,
for communion purposes, which he re-
fines by electricity-a receni discovery
of his own-which destroys the germ,
that scientists decide is the c,use of fer
mentation, and the means by Which alco-
hol is produced in wines Healso fumi-
gates his barrels with sulphur and by his
process produces pure, nuticious, un-
fermented wine, that has neither the
taste nor smell of alcohol. His wines
are sold in Dresden, Vienna ant other
parts of Europe, and are recommended
by all leading physicians in this country.
d. Cyrus Edison, Sanitary Supelnten,
dent of New York city, recommends it
as one of the best and purest brands eff
wine that he uses. Doctors d. w. Bliss
of Washington, our late Presiden Gar.
fields physician, J. G. Amber, A. s Coz
ner and Others speak of it in the highest
terms. Mr.. Speer while, while showing
Capt. Winchell through his vaults brought
him to musty looking apartment, from
which the cobwebs hung in such profu-
sion as to almost impede loconotion.
Here choice wines, 80 years oil, were
sampled from dingy and dirty looking
Dottles Wnlle tasting some 20 year-old |
Port, Mr.. Speer told story about the
late lamcnted Horace greeley, THO had |
received some bottles of Scupernng wine |
made from the native grape j South
Carolina, which Mr.. Greeley al Mr.
Speer to open and give his opinion of.
Mr.. Speer in drawing out the pigs, as
,he bottles were stopped with plegs in
stead OF corks, saw that they were made
If pitch pine, and knew that the mitch
would destroy the flavor, Handing a
glass of the wine to Mr.. Greeley, the
after smacked his lips, and said, "Speer.
What funny tasteit has. Take it awayj
want my turpentine pure. "-Pasaic. N. |
J., Daily News,