Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-08-06
THE LIQUORS OF FRANCE.
How They Are Now .dade from Barley
and Various Chemicals.

Row They Are Now saade from Barley
and Various Chemicals.
The English consul resident at
Nantes France, has sent to his govern
ment a report of the wine manufacture
and trade in his own and several other
districts. which will be read with in
tsrest wherever French wines and
brandy are drank or supposed to be
drank
As to cognac, with a toothful of
which the gourmet loves to round off
and compose generous dinner, Consul
Pauncefote reminds Englishmen that
II cannot be procured for less than
one pound sterling five dollars) per
bottle, and that anything sold at
smaller figure is not an agricultural,
but an industrial product" into whose
composition if real cognac enters at all
itenters only ''as perfume, to the ex-
tent that eau-de-cologne is put on a
handkerchief"
In reference to wines also, both
white and red, the account which he
has to transmit is not a whit more en-
couraging. In the case of wine used
for drinking, he says, the art of MAX
ing il from materials other than grapes
has advanced to quite high degree of
perfection. Red wine is made of white
vine by the addition of little flavor
ing and little coloring matter, while
white wine is made of barley.
This bogus or imitation wine manu-
iacture is due in large measure, it is
peculiar to say, to one of Pasteur's cell
ebrated discoveries. In the course of
that renowned scientists experiments
in fermentation, he unearthed the fact
not known before, that the bouquet of
afermented liquor is due not to the
material of which it is made, but to the
yeast that is used in its fermentation.
He showed by actual experiment that
wine could be made of barley; and that
Il the yeast used for fermenting pur-
poses were the yeast of a particular
grape, Chablis or Yquem, for example.
the wine would be Chablis or Yquem
without suspicion of barley flavor.
The discovery of Pasteurs, Consul
Pauncefote tells us, has been worked
for commercial purposes with singular
success, particularly by one M. George
Jaequemin. This enterprising vinous
artist il seems, has surpassed not only
all previous artists in this line, in the
beauty and variety of his vinous inven-
tons, but he has even gone point be-
yond that at which Pasteur himself ar
rived in the discovery referred to above.
For Pasteur, while he manufactured
vine from barley, always used the ac-
iual yeast or BARN obtained from real
grapes Of that particular vintage which
he sought to produce, nor indeed did he
ever give a hint that such a modest
tribute to genuineness could under any
circumstances be dispensed with. But
the enterprising NJ. Jacquemin went
one better" than the scientist; the
SCIENTIST required genuine grape yeast
Tor fermentation to produce the desired
vine, NJ. Jacquemin dispenses also
With real yeast. He has invented and
uses an artificial BARN, made from
Chemicals only, wherewith he initiates
the favors of all the finest vintages
70 such perfection as to defy detection
even from the connoisseur
And finally, this successful winter
has carried his discoveries to the point
hnding out that, if the wines which
Be has so manufactured be distilled,
NE product will be brandy of excel
lent quality, with all the flavor of the
Particular grape ferment used in the
manufacture of the wine.
These are facts which wine bibbers
and brandy topers will no doubt ru-
innate upon with mixed feelings. They
VII console themselves to some extent
efobably with the reflection that there
snothing more deleterious than little
aam in the fabricated wines which
laey have been drinking, believing
een to be pure and genuine; while
aey will no doubt deplore the tendency
sham that there is in everything
laae nowadays, and join with the
seeleslast of old in lamenting that,
vale the Creator made them upright,
Aef have sought out many inven-
sons But a knowledge of the fact
al most of the brands of cheap French
vines now on the market areinnocent OF
ly connection with the genuine grape
e'apied with the further fact that there
.as lore champagne" said to be con-
s-l'ed IN the United States of America
The year of grace 1890 than was
tipWn in ALI the vinpvar-dS of Cham
f-sne, ought to furnish material for
Tnous reflection to wine and brandy
: mixers, here and elsewhere.-N. u