The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-30
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to Henry Clews and many wine connois-
seurs, is the finest in the country. Mr..
Vanderbilt's favorite wine is a German
vintage worth $3.50 per case. Others say
that the Gould cellar is superior. The
sewer-pipe storage was invented by a
French nobleman during the Franco
Prussian war. Fire destroyed his resi-
dence, and the falling debris demolished
the wine cellar. Digging in the ruins.
the nobleman found some of the bottles
uninjured. These he was so anxious to
preserve that he dug his sewer pipe from
the ground, and laying it in rows he push
ed a bottle into the depths of each link
The result ten years later was the finest,
| moistest, spiciest wine ever tasted.
In George Gould's cellar there is a long
shelving of these short links of sewer
pipe. In each link there hides a rare
bottle. Some of the wine is of the vint-
age of 1871, which is the oldest claret
known. 1t is worth 800 for a case of a
dozen bottles.
deria are the talk of the old world When
they were at Cowes Mr. Gould took over
mixed case to the prince.
John w. Mackay has a very fine
chateau wine which he send to this
country to his friends a Christmas Cha
teau wine is wine that is bottled on the
country estate. Mr.. Mackays chateau
wine is pressed from his own presses and
bottled in a wine house 1t is laid
in baskets, taken to the cellar, and put
away to become famous wine twenty
years later
No man drinks wine that is under twen-
ty-five years old-no maA who has wine
cellar. Nor is he afraid of being imposed
upon. As a matter of fact, he knows
from personal experience the age of his
wines Every man has a favorite Vint-
Il Il HaRQin IA sill
mine king Of California, has large col
lection of the 1875 claret vintage. 1t is
one of the best of clarets worth $50 per
case. 1t is deep in color, soft and rich
He keeps II in the darkest corner of the
wine cellar of his town house. Whenever
he sees new lot for sale he buys it. He
purchased much of the wine cellar of the
late Samuel ]. Tilden, recently sold at
alarmingly low rates.
When a man buys a vintage he marks
1t and puts il away His son some day
reads the date and knows the age of
the wine In the course of years the
bottles are taken away one by one. but
so large is a wine cellar, so many are
the bottles and so careful is the owner
of them that in no case do the rare bot
ties diminish more than a bottle a year
Owners of rare wine become like coin
collectors. They want to keep their pos
session to look at it.
of wines for years. He owns some or
the 1901 brandy, which is sold at $120 per
dozen, and he has some red chateau wine
of 1870, for which he paid $50 per case,
and practically cornered the market on
this wine.
The possession of claret is a peculiar
thing. No wine is so variable. You
may look at the date and think you have
a rare old wine, but when a wine con-
noisseur visits you and sights the bot
tie he shakes his head sadly. you have
a wine of 1872. This is thin and poor.
You were cheated if you paid more than
$l2 a case for it,"
His eye falls upon bottle of 1871 IT
see you have only one bottle of that
and that is a pint bottle. Too bad! 1t
is one of the best claret vintages known.
1t is as good as 1869 and 1870. There you
should have paid so case and bought
heavily"
You show him an 1863 bottle. mo good"
he says. The wines of ,-.at year are all
miserable. And l see you have some of
SO, 60 and 81. All poor. All, there is a
SO. The grandest vintage ever known"
The wine connoisseur is up on all wines.
He knows their years, their ratings, their
prices and how many bottles there are on
the market. A man who is contemplating
the stocking of a wine cellar will save
money by consulting an expert upon wine
Good VINE is ike a diamond. You can al
ways realize your money upon it. Better
than diamond, it can never be flooded
upon the market by a Cecil Rhodes of
wines and your investment will increase
in value The only two drawbacks are
that the bottles are perishable, and that
you drink them up They are harder to
keep than a diamond would be-
The presence Of oobwebs upon a bottle
is not a guarantee of age. Webs are often
n 1sa 3 hot No
brought to the table or, at a pinch. a
host who wants TO put on much assump-
ton OF style will set a wine bottle in a
wooded arbor where spiders are thick and
allow them 10 spin a web over the bottle
in a night,
Spider webs are priced. but from an