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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... observations I was making , or , rather , the things I observed . On the 20th of September , 1866 , I arrived in beau- tiful and rich Bordeaux , the capital of wine — the centre , not of one great wine district merely , but of many ...
... observations I was making , or , rather , the things I observed . On the 20th of September , 1866 , I arrived in beau- tiful and rich Bordeaux , the capital of wine — the centre , not of one great wine district merely , but of many ...
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... observations in the south of France , my reflections thereon , and plans and hopes thence resulting , I think they will be found new , interesting , and important to my fel- low vine - dressers . I think they will see in souche training ...
... observations in the south of France , my reflections thereon , and plans and hopes thence resulting , I think they will be found new , interesting , and important to my fel- low vine - dressers . I think they will see in souche training ...
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... observation would fail to detect in the pebbly surface at Lafitte , any more than at La Tour , any thing to distinguish it from a good many others growing wines of only second , third , fourth , or fifth class , or no class at all . But ...
... observation would fail to detect in the pebbly surface at Lafitte , any more than at La Tour , any thing to distinguish it from a good many others growing wines of only second , third , fourth , or fifth class , or no class at all . But ...
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... for wine of the quality there grown . The souches observed no order whatever . Though at first planting they are set in regular lines five feet apart , and eighteen inches distant from each other within BURGUNDY AND THE CÔTE D'OR . 79.
... for wine of the quality there grown . The souches observed no order whatever . Though at first planting they are set in regular lines five feet apart , and eighteen inches distant from each other within BURGUNDY AND THE CÔTE D'OR . 79.
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... observe in the form of open vats is one that will give the liquid the same depth as diameter . New casks are preferred in Burgundy as well as in Médoc . Pains are taken to keep them full , and they draw off frequently . I was ...
... observe in the form of open vats is one that will give the liquid the same depth as diameter . New casks are preferred in Burgundy as well as in Médoc . Pains are taken to keep them full , and they draw off frequently . I was ...
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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.