Three Seasons in European Vineyards: Treating of Vineculture; Vine Disease and Its Cure; Wine-making and Wines, Red and White; Wine-drinking, as Affecting Health and Morals |
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... one of the enormous drays that are made for them be- tween three and four tons . If we could replace our six millions of nags , of one sort and another , with one third their number of a breed like this , 12 EUROPEAN VINEYARDS .
... one of the enormous drays that are made for them be- tween three and four tons . If we could replace our six millions of nags , of one sort and another , with one third their number of a breed like this , 12 EUROPEAN VINEYARDS .
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... four feet wide . The posts were round and straight locust saplings grown for the purpose , and were placed twenty feet apart . Through holes in them the wires were strung , and an ingenious con- trivance tightened them . They were ...
... four feet wide . The posts were round and straight locust saplings grown for the purpose , and were placed twenty feet apart . Through holes in them the wires were strung , and an ingenious con- trivance tightened them . They were ...
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... four times a year , twice to uncover , and twice to cover the feet of the souches . A regular and certain return of five per cent . on his capital contents the proprietor in the Charente , and even this moderate rate could not be ...
... four times a year , twice to uncover , and twice to cover the feet of the souches . A regular and certain return of five per cent . on his capital contents the proprietor in the Charente , and even this moderate rate could not be ...
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... four plowings which they annually receive , two of which uncover , and the other two cover their feet . The plow they use is of wood , except a plate of iron in form of a long triangle with which it is shod , and has but one handle ...
... four plowings which they annually receive , two of which uncover , and the other two cover their feet . The plow they use is of wood , except a plate of iron in form of a long triangle with which it is shod , and has but one handle ...
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... four thousand gallons . No other crushing was given to the grapes than what they necessarily got in being rubbed through the meshes of the screen . C On taking my leave , I received valuable instruc- tions MÉDOC . 49.
... four thousand gallons . No other crushing was given to the grapes than what they necessarily got in being rubbed through the meshes of the screen . C On taking my leave , I received valuable instruc- tions MÉDOC . 49.
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acid acre alcohol American appear APPLYING SULPHUR Aramons attacked barriques bellows better blossoming Bordeaux bottle brandy buds Burgundy called cane Carignans casks Catawba cellars cent Champagne Charente climate Cloth Cognac color cost Côte d'or covered crop cultivated cured diseased vines drink dust effects epoch Fahrenheit favor feet fermentation flour of sulphur folle blanche France French fruit gallons give grapes green ground heat inches Johannisberg JOHN S. C. ABBOTT July June labor Languedoc leaves manure Marès Médoc Montpellier Muscat mycelium needed observed obtained oïdium oïdium Tuckeri parasite phur Piquepouls plants plow powder present produced pruning quantity rain ravages reason red wine ripening rougeau Rudesheim shoots soil soon souche south of France spores sugar sulphured vines sure surface taste temperature Terrets thing tion trellis varieties vegetation vine disease vine-dressers vineyards vintage
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Page 144 - The water should rise as high as the ring about the mouth of the bottle. I have never yet completely submerged them, but do not think there would be any inconvenience in doing so provided there should be no partial cooling during the heating up, which might cause the admission of a little water into the bottle. One of the bottles is filled with water, into the lower part of which the bowl of a thermometer is plunged. When this marks the degree of heat desired, 149° Fahrenheit for instance, the basket...
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Page 145 - It will not do to put in another immediately the too warm cater might break the bottles. A portion of the heated water is taken out and replaced with cold, to reduce the temperature to a safe point, or, better still, the bottles of the second basket may be prepared by warming, so as to be put in as soon as the first comes' out The expansion of the wine during the heating process tends to force out the cork, but the twine or wire holds it in, and the wine finds a vent between the neck and the cork....
Page 146 - Wine in casks may be heated by introducing a tin pipe through the bung-hole, which shall descend in coils nearly to the bottom and return in a straight line and through the pipe imparting steam. If, after thus being once heated, there is such an exposure to air, as by drawing off and bottling, as to admit a fresh introduction of " parasites," the disease thus introduced may be easily cured by heating a second time.