New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-17
UINE PURIFIED BY ELECTRICITY.

Captain Wnchen, a well known New-York news
paper writer lately returned from two years trip
Florida, has been sojourning In Passaic for tho
past week lie dropped into Mr. Alfred speers wine
vaults day this week, and became enthusiastic
the purity and great popularity of his wines. Mr..
spccr has achieved that Is marvellous and
he IS Justly entitled to reputation well earned after
long and experienced career over thirty-two years
tito grape Vine; Of which the genuine port wine is
made flom the DOmO Valley In Portugal, obtained
at considerable expense 5000 Of the vines which he
set out ldc had great trouble In acclnatlzing the
vines, and finally, after eight years OF much trial and
labor got zoo under successful cultivation all the
others having died. FROM these hc obtained layers
from which he has pr0pagated and formed his forty
acres Of handsomely laid out vineyards. The Oporto
grape Is small back variety very much In the shape
and appearance OF our native Wild grape, sometimes
called most grapes. They are only fit for making
wnc being too small for table use. AS they contain
iron and other medicinal properties, giving the wine
dark color and body, # has become valuable to
physicians who have always recommended It to in
vads and Others, when # could be obtained pure.
An article labelled port wine is extensively sold, but
IS dangerous liquid and moro Injurious than bene
fetal, when adulteraicd with logwood and hundred
ohor drugs that used to counterfeit the genuine
article; MT spccr also makes a specially OF infer
mentci gTale juice from this OpOrto grape, for com
munlon purposes, which he retncs by eleotrcity-a
recent discovery OF his Own-whlch destroys tho
germ that scientists decide Is the OF fermonta-
tion and the means by which alcohol is produced In
wines. He also fumlga,es his barrels With sulphur.
ieTmcntcd wine, that has neither the taste nor smell
OF alcohol. His wines sold I'm Dresden, Vienna
and other parts of Europe and are recommended by
all leading physicians IN this country DR.. Cyrus
Edison, sanitary superintendent OF New-York CITY,
recommends II as one OF the best and purest brands
Of wine that he uses Doctors d. ". Bliss, Of Wash
lngon. our late President Carfcld's physician, J. @.
Amber A. ;. Conner, and others speak Of II In the
highest terms. Mr. specr, while showing Captain
Nlnchcl through his vaults. brought him TO musty
looking apartment, from which the cobwehs hung in
such proflsipn as to almost impede locomotion Here
eholcc wines. thirty years old, were sampled from
dlngy and dirty looking bottles. while tasting
some twenty years old port, Mr. Speer told story
about the lato lamented Horace Greeley, who haQ
received some bottles OF scupernong wine, made from
tho native grape In South Carolina which Mr. Greeley
asked Mr.. spcer to open and give his opinion OF Mr..
specr, in drawing out the plugs, as the bottles were
sfopped with plugs Instead Of corls, that thoy
were made of pitch pine, and knew that the pitch
would destroy the flavor Handing a. glass OF the
wine 20 Mr.. Greeley, the latter smacked his lips and
said "spcer, what a funny taste II has Tahe II
away I want my turpcntine pure."-lPassaio Daily
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