Drinks of the world / by James Mew and John Ashton.

  • Mew, James.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Drinks of the world / by James Mew and John Ashton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WINES. Definition—Various Meanings of Wine — Alcohol — Varieties of Wine—Miller—Professor Mulder—Origin of Wine—Brook of Eshcol—Strabo and Reland—Francatelli’s Order of Wines— Classification of M. Batalhai Reis. IN the matter of wine, as in that of beer, it is perhaps as well to commence with a dictionary description or definition. Ogilvie declares it to be the “ fermented juice of the grape, or fruit of the vine.” It is, however, also the juice of certain fruits, prepared in imitation of wine obtained from grapes, but dis- tinguished by naming the source whence it is derived, as currant wine, gooseberry wine, etc.; and a third meaning of wine—a meaning with which we have happily little to do—is the effect of drinking wine in excess, or intoxication.1 Wines are practically distinguished by their colour, flavour, stillness or effervescence, and what is known as hardness or softness. The differences in quality 1 Tn this sense it is apparently used in Gen. ix. 24: “Noah awoke from his wine.