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

  • Mew, James.
Date:
1892
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    to which it belongs, Wine of the Holy Ghost. Leisten wines are grown on Mt. Saint Nicolas. Straw wines are made in Franconia. Calmns, a liqueur wine, like the sweet wines of Hungary, is made in the territory of Frankfurt. The best vineyards are those of Bischofs- heim. Wines of Saxony are of little worth. Meissen and Guben produce the best. Naumburg makes some small wines, like inferior Burgundy. The excellence of the Rhine wines has seldom perhaps been proved more clearly than by one who loved them well. Goethe, in his A us einer Reise am Rhein, Main und Neckar, says : “Niemand sch'amt sich der Weinhist, sie riihmen sich einigermaassen des Trinkens. Hiibsche Frauen gestehen dass Hire Kinder mit der Mutterbrust zugleich Wein geniessen. Wir fragten ob denn wahr sey, dass es geistlichen Herren, ja Kurfiirsten gegliickt, acht Rheinische Maass, das heisst sechzehn unserer Bou- teillcn, in vierundzwanzig Stunden zu sich zunehmen ? Ein scheinbar ernsthafter Gast bemerkte, man diirfe sich zu Beantwortung dieser Frage nur der Fasten- predigt Hires Weihbischofs erinnern, welcher, nachdem er das schreckliche Laster der Trunkenheit seiner Ge- meinde mit den stdrksten Farben dargestellt, also ge- schlossen habe—” But for those who understand not the German tongue we will give some of the sermon of this Church dignitary on the Rochusberg in English. “ Those, my pious brethren, commit the greatest sin who misuse God’s glorious gifts. But the misuse ex- cludes not the use. Wine, it is written, rejoices man’s heart. Therefore we are clearly intended to enjoy it. Now perhaps, beloved brethren, there is not one of