The San Francisco call., 1895-12-15

| delicious. yelyety and fruity wine. Also
Tokay, Malaga, Muscat of Livadia are pro-
duced there without any addition ofsugar
and alcohol.
There are, further, exhibited here good
Burgundy wines of the Caucasus, made
out of the Kakhetic grape, Saperavie,
and the Grenache varieties the latter
being well known in California. The Mon
vede and Puiotgris yield enormous crops
per acre and wines OF 13 per cent alcohol.
Also Semillon, Malvoise and Riesling
thrive we'll.
tits interesting to chronicle that Japan
is represented by wines and brandies pro-
duced by natives.
| Last, but not least, California; s exhibit.
This choice collective contribution from
all the different wine districts of the State,
the names of which appear in large letters
on the outside walls of the little orna-
! mental pavilion, has no doubt consider
| ably advertised California wine here and
attracted a great deal of interest. There
has been an amount of sampling by the
| jury, experts, dealers, journalists and
others, and opinions have been formed
and expressed upon the value of our
| product. AS far as l can learn, many of
| the wines, both red and white, have ere
ated surprise, and IN several cases a1mira-
| ton. Unfortunately | notice that num-
Der of bottles on exhibit, particularly OF
white wine, have gone wrong, turned
cloudy and show deposits. This may have
| given rise to some of the fault-hnding with
the white wines.
As l have learned from our Consul, Mr..
! Wiley, or rather his Vice-Consul, Mr..
| Beecher, both of whom have taken most
earnest interest in this exhibit. some
critics claimed to discover taste of rot
| ten wood in some of the wines. The
wines of Ingienook (Napa) Cresta Blanca
| Beringer Brothers. are among those which
| | hearo favorably commented upon. On
| the whole, our red wines seem to be liked
better here than the white. The former
seem to have shown the best keeping
qualities among this exhibit. Fault has
/ been found with the labels, corks and tin
| caps. In some instances the latter have
worn badly. To this may perhaps be at
! tributed the poor condition of some of the
bottles.
The best varieties of wine and brandy
which we produce are apparently here on
/ show-our Cabernets, Zinfandels, c)aret
blends. Semillons, Sauterne types, ports,
sherries, sweet wines, etc. All or most OF
our leading wine-cellars and vineyards
seem to have taken part, and 1T would
therefore be probably useless to enumerate
the exhibitors. California appears repre-
sented in all classes and divisions of the
official catalogue.
| AS far as the publications of the awards
/ 60 to date the diploma of the silver medal
has been awarded for wines (dry and
sweet) to the collective exhibit of Califor-
MIA and the Cupertino Wine Company of
Santa Clara County. The diploma of the
bronze medal to Albertz of Cloverdale {;
Arpad Haraszthy; Carpy d Co, Napa;
! H. w. Crabb, Napa; Ruby Hill Vineyard
| Company, Pleasanton, and Julius Smith,
! Livermore; the bronze medal also for
brandy to Diehl, Menke & Co.. San Fran
! cisco.
Honorable mention is awarded to Ben
Lomond Wine Company, Santa Cruz
Beringer Bros, st. Helena; Italian-Swiss
| Agricultural Colony, Asti: P. Klein, Santa
| Clara; Napa Valley Wine Company and
| Schilling IL Co., San Francisco. Germany
received for wines nine awards, Australia
| thirty-six, among these diploma of
| honor, the second best (the first being the
| grand prix), and five gold medals, the
| third best (while the diploma of silver
medal is only the fourth besD; Austria
! Hungary only three awards Zone silver
medal, two honorable mentions); Chile one
| gold medal for the National Society
of Agriculture and two bronze medals !;
| Cyprus one honorable mention; Spain
| about 140 diplomas, from the diplome
d'honneur down to the honorable men
ton; New York State Bishop of Roches-
ter), one honorable mention; Greece nine,
Italy twenty-five, Japan one, gold
| mccall; fOrtuSdl tWelVe, Ine AISeHtlne
Republic one silver medal, Russia one
grand prix for the Cars exhibit (no doubt
| for political reasons), one bronze medal
and four honorable mentions; SwitZer-
! land one silver medal, and Uruguay one
bronze medal.
There may yet be other awards for Cali
fornia, the publication of which has not
| been reached or which may have been
| cabled over before this letter will be pub
lished. Whether the California wine has
! been done full Justice at Bordeaux, either
| by the contributors to the exhibit or the
! jury in making the awards, will be diff
cult to determine now. Some OF the
Bordeaux experts who expressed them
selves freely on Spanish or Russian wines
I even declined to give their opinions. 1t
| is not TO be forgotten that in the English
and German markets California is a COM
| petitor with France.
1t may be of interest to add that since
| May l, up to October II, during twenty
| two weeks of the exposition of Bordeaux,
| the total number of visitors was 1, 719, ,078.
The following are the awards given for
| California brandies at the Bordeaux Expo
sition:
| Diploma of silver medal = Inglenook
vineyard Rutherford, Napa County; Ital-
| ian-Swiss Agricultural Colony, Asti, So
| noma County; Sabatie & Co., San Fran
| cisco.
Diploma OF bronze medal-George West,
| Stockton, and Diehl, Menke & Co., San
| Francisco.
Honorable mention-Beringer Brothers,
| St. Helena; H. w. Crabb, Oakville, Napa
County; Kohler & Frohling. Glen Ellen;
Repsold & Co., San Francisco.
! Among the foreign exhibits of brandy
or 'Cognac'' California ranks as high as
any other country, in fact higher than
| most of them, only Greece, Italy and
Russia also carrying off silver medals.
Australia had to be contented with bronze
medals. Italy and Russia each received
but one silver medal, Greece six, California
| three One New York exhibitor is awarded
| honorable mention" for his grape brandy.
Yesterdays edition of the leading wine
| journal OF Bordeaux, Feuille Vinicole de la
| Gironde, contains brief summary of all
the foreign wine exhibits, written by the
| editor and we'll known wine expert Henri
Kehrig. 1t will be interesting to hear
what he has to say about the Australian
and Californian exhibits:
around the fourth pillar opposite the
Greek monument, are grouped the wines
of Australia. First the collective exhibit
of the co:ony. of Victoria (twenty-six ex-
hibitors). then fifteen individual exhib-
tors We find here, also, the Cabernet,
Malbec, Riesling, Frontignan, etc. The
Aucfralionc on ia whole have sent nc