Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-11
WINE WHEN ITISRED
SURPRISING THINGS USED IN ITS
MANUFACTURE.
Senator Stanford Owns the biggest Vine
yard in the World. Covering
3,s25 Acres.
fWashington Stall

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Ell tho product sold in themarket under
the guise OF Wac. The printed name
bordeaux, for example, seems something
Ike guaranteed when found upon "a bot
Tie and vet IL il hardly such, as one may
see when the fact Is considered that Bor-
deauX annually exports FIVE times as much
wine as is produced during that period IN
the district. II may he fairly said that
Bordeaux depends at least as much upon
the laboratory a. upon the vineyard. Bor-
deaux has been called very Justly nest OF
forccrs Of red wine; the town Of Ccttel
near by. ia chiefly engaged IN this sort oil
business. burgundy Is a rather safe sort
of clarct TO buy. because OF the diihculty
81 initiating its characteristic bitter taste
which chemists say Is due TO the presence
al a bacillus strongly resembling IN appear
1nce the comma bacillus OF cholera
' Are such fals.dchtions Of WINE ever
DANGEROUS to heelth?" asked the star re-
" Decidedly. Fortunes have been made
at tine expense Of the consumers health Uy
dishonest wine merchants. IL ~ 80 easy
don't YOU know. to make port out OF mix
turc of cider strip. gum kno, ana 'ar'arlG
Gcid that its manufacture with an assureu
market AT profitable prices presents great
temptation. As for claret. YOU can easily
mako n from a decOction OF oris root,
raspberry luice, syrup, ana c"'hlhchi'
sherry. "a you NAV improve upon ma
turo's plan for making IT, - coiHb ma
ton of cheap materials with Color
ing material prepared from albanet root.
la large cities wine-makers who nave no
VINEYARDS available find satisfactory sub
tfifute for fresh grapes m dried raislns,
cuIrauts. and peaches OF low grade.
which they mncerate with other iruit,
isur'ly second hand. water and sugar beng
nld,l The mixture Is feImented. and
subsequently, tine iermentaton IS checked
by salcylic acid. Finally II Is clarified,
favored and coiored 20 resemble any KIND
How wa thc vine first introduced into
this country -
BY the PRIEST from Spain. who planted
~ san Diego. Cal. not only the olive, but
the hg aud pOiucugrauate, Tut also the
vine. For some reason unknown they
chose for planting % certain grape, which,
while fairly useful for the table. produced
only vsry moderately good red vine. ms
yarict, OF grape stIll exists largely IN Cali
foruia. and the great recommendation IN
lis behalf is that il produces plcntituily
beyond nll others. The stock, however, j.
still stuck 10 by many California people.
notwithstand. the fact that Ms bottled re-
cult lbs rather crudo aud goes tie head IKE
brandy. The slips ut Malaga vine planted by
Franciscan monk. at san Diego and other
points a. A-.lltLiiA l.l - ~ hA'i 'Lt iAi'i''''
what has since crown TO be an enormous
industry. within the past twenty five
vsnrs CLIPPINGS have been planted there
from the finest vines of Burgundy. bor-
d,aux. Coguac. Hungary, the Kline valley,
Portugal. and Madeira. At the present
moment there IA Ia IcAaIna county, Cal,
the largest VINEYARD IN the world, covering
ASH acres. the property of Senator Stan
ford. Santa barbara, Cal, owns the
largest vinc-heaTng grapes IN the world.
In one wear d. produces on an average
y. 00) pounds II grapes.
The method n making wine, like every
thing else mechanical in tins county, con-
tiuuel the merchant, us reduced 10 sclen-
filc principles. The grapes as they are
brought from the vineyard are placed upon
an endlc wooden belt, which carries { EN-
uu 10 the top story Of the factory. There
fnev fan into the wlne-press and every
particle ~ luico ~ pressed from them so
a. 10 pour into watts below. These watts run
on wheels, go that when one Is tuli II may
Doe rolled OF and omptied INTO the great
tanks wherein fermentation rs conducted.
Fermentation produces, alcohol out now
many people can tell how alcohol IS
made Ask tho best-intOrmed person
Won know and he will be posed. Then
inform him. with the satisfaction OF SUI
pcri0r knowledge, that alcohol Is formed
hy tho contact az tho yeast-plant, which Is
a fungus. with sugar. Finally the grape
juiCe Is run of into casks and subsequently,
bottled. The term alcohol comes down
from the Arabian philosophers, who, as
Won know, were tho original chemists.
They referred 10 1t in their own language
as al kohl. meaning the spirit on hnd
tho same word kohl used III Mohamme-
dan countries TO this day, signitylng the
dark pigment which women paint their
eyes with around the inside of the lids to
give them soulful expression. AL kohi =
the spirit of the wine. We ourselves still
preserve the term, calling alcohols splnt
Of wine"
who is supposed to have invented
wineY"
Noah, have understood. In the ruins
Of Thebes and Memphis, IN Egypt, dating
coo years back, have been found tablets
that the priests IN charge of the CORPSE
cities were obliged 90 keep IN the tOmbs
for the use Of the departed two kinds OF
becr-ono light and one dark-and hVe
kinds of wines. The original Solomon
saws that wine ~ amOcker and strong drink
raeing. but Bob Ingersoll prefers 10 alter
!, by saying that wine is the treslde and
strong drink the conilagration.
During the fifteenth century wine was
30 plentiful that in Nurtemburg pauiul
az the fermentod product sold for rVe
cents. The years from 1920 TO l429 are
memorable in South Germany Tor The
abundance that the vineyards gave. 10
great was it That, according 70 the saSlhS
then. a man was able 10 get intoxicated ON
what he could buy for one half 0t cent as
money is now. The cement used IN build
inc the cathedrals Of Vienna and l I'm du-
ring these wears was mOistencd with
wine instead of water. In the SIX
teenth century, It Is understood,
brandy was first manufactured. Du-
ring that period a law IN the ancient
city of Lubbock directed That the KING,
when he sOjourned IN town, should be
given daily four pals and sixteen mea-
sures of wine. A queen was 10 receive
three pals and eight measures, duke
EIGHT measures, q count or bishop Tour
measures. q countess, knight. abbot, bur
gomaster, or doctor of a university two
measures. anda municipal clerk one mea-
sure Presumably tho municipal clerk,
earnest work being required OF him, was
purposelv not given more than might be
GOOD for him # no chose TO consume his
entire allowance. At the same time 1t was
understood that all the wine thus appro-
priated was OF the best that the muncl-
nal cellar afforded. making was
praCticed by the ancient Egyptians quite
B. 900 wears ago, and by them was handed
down 20 the Greeks. who are supposed TO
have been the first adulterers OF the bey-
erage. The wines OF the ola hohuIls
we're mostly very much condensed and
combined with all sorts of queer things
90 that they would not be much rehshed
nowadays. The epicure of the nineteenth
century would not be especially pleased 70
find himself guest at table where under
the name of wine was offered a diluted
mixture of what had been sort Of
syrup in which such extraordinary ingredi-
en;s had been introduced as salt water,
rosin. tar, turpentine, myrh, and many
other curious things. all of which were sup
posed TO be necessary to give aproper favor
to the beverage. Nestor, the sage advisor
OF the Greeks before Troy, was a great
drinker. II is said that Charles James Fox
used habitually to swallow TWO or three
bottles of port before beginning enc OF his
mighty speeches. His great and successful
opponent, Pitt, was accustomed 10 have
resort TO the same stimulant on hike occa-
sions. though in less quantity. Likewise
Dlsraeli, who made his most brilliant ora
tons under the influence OF the VINE from
Portugal. Once upon time distin-
guished Asiatic was asked what hethought
OF wine, and he replied: II Is JUICE ex-
tracted from women's tongues aud lions