The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02
THE WINES OF ALGIERs.
They Compete With Those Of France
Diet for q Fat Man.

Diet for q Fat Man.
Mrs. John Sherwood
Clairette produces abundantly and makes
good, dry wine. Amin Kelb, more cor
rectly Ain Kelb, 'dog's eye," an Arab
grape, which makes a good, strong wine,
but it requires keeping. Muscat, a capri
cious bearer. From the two last named
varieties sweet as well as dry wines are
produced by adding large quantities of
alcohol to the juice of the grape, and thus
preventing fermentation. The crops yield
quantities varying from 700 gallons per
acre in rich land to 400 on the hillside, ex-
cept Cariguan, which yields more. Ara
nom yields as much, but the quality is
inferior.
The red wines are sent to Bordeaux, to
Burdundy to give strength and quality to
the French clarets; they are very useful
for blending. The dry white wine is
rather stronger and fuller than that of
France and Germany, and is much used to
give additional value to the thinner quail
ties of Rhine wine.
The cellars OF Chateau Hydra are now
probably the best in the colony. They
are excavated in the soft rock here incor-
rectly called Tufa, in reality an aggrega-
ton of infinitely pulverized shells 1t is
soft and sandy and easily excavated. The
surface becomes harder by exposure to
the atmosphere, and it is not subject to
crumbling.
Mr.. Ledyard has excavated extensive
cells in this rock, in which extreme even
ness of temperature is insured, condi-
ton most necessary for the proper manu-
facture of wine.
Mr.. Eyre Ledyard's vineyards and cell
lars of the Chateau Hydra estate are now
farmed by the Societe Anonyme ViticoIe
ct Vinicole d'Hydra, OF which Mr.. Led
yard is chairman. These wines have been
so successfully shipped to England and
other countries that the company now
buys grapes largely from the best vine
yards in order to make sufficient wines to
meet the demand. The Hydra company
supplies wine to all vessels of the ocean
company going to India and China. A
very carefully prepared quinine white wine
is made for invalids and for use in coun-
tries where there is fever
/ especially recommend a trial of this
last excellent wine to Americans, as il is
most agreeable as well as healthful The
postal address is NJ. lie Gerant, HYDRA
Caves, Blrnandreis, Algiers.
All the story of Algiers reads like a tale
of the ARABIAN Nights, and none is more
poetic than the names and the story of
these delicious wines.
The Greek wines are well spoken of in
Europe-Santonin and Thera. and St Ellie
and Corinth, and Mount Hymettus, vi
Santo and Cyprus-while from Magyar
vineyards come Muscat, Badesconger.
Dioszezer, Baketer, Hook, Rustic Sam
arodny. Alderberger, 0ffoer and Tokay.
The Hungarian wines are very heady.
He must be q swashbuckler who drinks
them.
They are said to make the drlnker grow
fat.
To this unhappy class Brillat Sayarin
gives the following precepts:
Hyou have tendency TO fairness, drink every
summer thirty bottles of seltzer waters large
tumbler the hrst thing in the morning, the
Others before lunch and the same at bed time
Drink white wines; especially those which
are light and acid aud avoid beer as you would
the plague. Ask frequently for radishes arti.
chokos with hot sauce, asparagus celery:
choose veal and fowl, rather than beef and mutt
ton, and eat as little of the crumb of bread as
possible.
Avoid maoaroni and pea soup: avoid farina-
eeous food under whatever toim ii assumes, and
dispense with all sweets.
At breakfast take brown bread and Chocolate
rather than coffee
Indeed Brillat Savarin seems to have in.
spired this later poet:
Talk Of the nectar that flowed for celestials.
hlenef III headaches it WAS than hilarityl
y el Tor US animals, frequently bestials,
hsoe DESTROYED the recipe as a charity
en- -
SOMEHOW my system has suffered shock O. late.
en-
FIJI ms, then, Gil me bumper of chocolate.
'onee ! drank ioswOOd, ana Qu.ssia. and tur.
Liquors with eoIenbes, Aloes and gentian in.
sure Us no wonder my path became serpeDfine.
Set1lng state should blush now 10 mention
In - SA'i"A
Farewell 10 Buigandy, farewell TO sillerv:
hsNe ho' TASTED drop g en- OF Hook O late;
long live the kettle, nv dear old aiStf,ls-~
fiis me. oh al me bumper of chocolate
As We cannot all drink Chocolate
recommend the carefully prepared white
VINE with quinine in il which comes from
ChateaG hydra, in Algiers. Or some of
the ItaIian wines, Barolo, for instance. or
dnced in Savoy. f''
ABOUT AK les Bains (where the cuisine
IS the best in Europe) are many wines
manufactured on the spot, which are hon.
est wines with no headaches in them,