The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04

is little or no drunkenness. It is TO be
feared that drunkenness is increased by i'm.
pure wines. 1t is shocking to read of the
authorizations which first class wines are
subjected to, or rather the authorizations
which are called first class wines Wilkie
Collins has hit at this in his mo Name. },
where he makes the famous Captain Wagge
say:
! I'VE were engaged at the time in making
IN small back parlor in Brompton a fine
| 1lrst class sherry, round in the mout tn, tonic
In character and great favorite with the
court of Spain"
Our golden sherry, our Chambertin. our
Chateau LATTE, is said to often come from
the vineyards of Jersey City and the gener-
Gus hillsides of Brooklyn, and we might
perhaps quote from the song of "The
Canal:'
| Ihe tradesmen who in liquor DEAL
| Ot our canal goods use can make
AnC when they mean their casks to fill
Ihey OFT It's water freely take.
By this device they render less
The Ills that spring from drunkenness
For harmless is the wine you'll own
From vine that in canals is grown"
| A large proportion of the SO called for
elgn wines sold IN America are of Ameri-
can manufacture. The medium grade clar-
cts and so-called moselles are made in Cal
norma IN great quantities. Our Senator
Leland Stanford, makes excellent wines
On the islands of Lake Erie, the lake region
OF central New York, and along the banks
! OF the Ohio and Missouri rivers, are vine
yards producing excellent winesi
An honest American wine is an excellent
thing to drink. And yet it disguised Com
modore McVicker, who was entertained in
LONDON, as president of the yacht club, to
be asked to drink american wines. Still
the catawbas, ''dulcet, delicious and
0rAQmU ~ 20 lol
are the sweet and dry California growths
Inc Indigenous wines which come from
ONO, Iowa, Missouri and Mississippi are
apt to be musky and foxy, and are not
pleasant to an American taste The cataw
oas are pleasant and are of three colors
rose color, straw color and colorless. if that
De color. In taste they are like sparkling
moselle, but fuller to the palate.
The wine produced from the Isabella
grape Is of decided raspberry flavor
Ihe finest American wines are those rro-
duced from the vines known as Norton g
Virginia and the Cynthiana. The former
produces well blended, full bodied, deem
colored, aromatic and always astringent
VINE only needing finesse to equal first
rate burgun0y. The second, probably the
inner OF the two, being darker lese
astrlngent and more delicate growth.
among the American red wines. NAV be
mentioned the produce of the Schuyikill
Muscadel, which was the only esteemed
growth in the country previous to
THE CULTIVATION OF THE CATAWBA GRAPE.
being, in fact, ambitiousy compared to the
Crus of the Gironde 1t was better acid
ulous wine, little suited to the American
palate, and lnvar ably requiring an addi
tlon OF either sugar or alcohol
Long fellow sings OF the wine of the Mus
tang grape OF Texas and New Mexico:
The fiery food
OF whose purple blood
Has dash CT Spanish bravadon
The Carolina Scupperong is detestable,
reminding US OF the sweet and better medi-
cInes of childhood. The Herbemont. q rose
tinted wine is very like the Spanish Man
CAMILLA.
Longfellow says of sparkling catawba
that 1t fills the room with a benis on to the
giver. 1T has, indeed, charming bon
auet" says the poet.
The name of Nicholas Longworth is init
mately connected with the subject of Amer
lean wines To him will ever be given all
honor, as being the father OF this Industry
in the American new world
But the superior excellence OF the Cali
fornia wines has driven the New York and
the Ohio wines, it is said, to a second plaos
in the market.
In the exposltions of 1889 at Paris and in
Melbourne, silver medals were awarded 10
the lnglewood wines, witch are of the Red
Claret, Burgundy and Medoc type, also
white wines, Sauterne Chasselas and Hocl,
Chablis, Resling, etc., etc.
The right soil for the cultivation of the
grape is a hard thing to find but Captain
Nlebaum, rich California grower, has hit
the KEY note when he says:
VI have no wish to make any money ont
OF my vineyard by producing large GUAM