The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-13
CALIFORNIA TO START 4 GAZE HERE.
Her Viticulturnl Communication VIII show Us
Whit Good Wines She Produce..

An opportunity is soon to be given to New
York for q fair opportunity to decide whether
or not the best class OF California wines will
suit the tastes OF the wine drinkers OF this city.
This Is to be done through the establishment
OF CATO in this city to be conducted by Cali.
fornia State officials.
California is probably the only State in the
Union that has ever conducted a cafe. This
came about through the efforts OF the Niticu-
tural Commission Of that State to introduce
vineyard bot led wines rs opposed to the prod
uct OF the wine cellars in the city. The vine
yardists who held their own wines until they
were properly ripe and blended and bottled
their own products and sent them cut under
their own labels had a long and expen-
slve contest with tho city cellarmen.
who bought up the new products OF impe-
cunious vneyardsts. stretched them with
water. fortified them with alcohol. colored
them with cherry juice. and put this fabricated
stuff on the market with false labels. The
wine used by the city cellarmen was bought
from tho vinyardists. who could not afford to
carry their own products. for prices ranging
from fifteen to twenty cents a gallon. and the
cellarmen were OF course able to- undersell
tho producers. who were obliged to Invest
largely In extensive cooperage and cellars.
and stand the further expense OF labor in
handling their products for two and three. and
viticutural interest was being ruined by the
unfair methods OF the city cellarmen: and
made liberal appropriations for the 'iticul'
The Commissioners found that the wine
drinkers OF San Francisco. that is. those who
drink wine with their meals and who include
practically all the population. were prejudiced
against California wine on account Of their ex:
wt a the b. e wss f a1d
the numerous vineyard brands which included
great variety Of sound; pure; well; blended
sion. after various other schemes had failed.
established In San Fran cisco cafe where such9
lunch as a tlrst-class club serves was provided
atprices which only covered the cost, nd where
all OF the vineyard bottled wines were listed
ut their bottle and case prices. This resulted
houses. and the private consumers thus Sc
cured forced the introduction OF the SAM class
OF wine into tho hotels and restaurants.
MOST OF these wines range In price from 81
to $l2 case Of dozen quarts. although some
sell above and some below those figures The
vineyards IN casks For this they pay from Is
cents to 81. so gallon. doing then, own bot
thing. tho vineyardist supplying the labels. A
them. stored in bottles the cost Of bottles.
corks. caps and labor added about % cents
gallon; which Is the actual measure Of still
wine quart" bottle. At ordinary club profits
Ds SID 9T S s.s the
and sauternes sold in the restaurants in Now
Regarding the plan for introducing good
California wines in this city, the Secretary Of
tho Cal ifornia Viticultural Commission is re-
ported In San Francisco paper as saying:
New York 10 about in the same condition In
gard 20 her lnowlsdse ot California wines a. san
franciscn was nve years ago There almost none o.
be had true 10 the label The starting Of caf in which
the WINE would be known to be true to label is almost
the ONLY way Of getting our wnes Introduced TO wine
users.
Our plans are not completed yet Int tho Commission
In earnest and the matter viii DO vigorously pushed
We Will open rooms IN New YORK hrst when the IN
VIII pay our attention to tho ther large cities
Commissioners Clarence J Wetmore ami Frank A.
Wer were appointed n committee to mako all neces
snry arrangements for the successful contamination
OF the plan.