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Wine and wine-making - England - Early works to 1800
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The vintner's mystery display'd: or, The whole art of the wine trade laid open. In which are the necessary directions for rightly managing all sorts of wines, so as to render them bright and good; or to restore them when they prove defective in any way whatsoever. A treatis absolutely necessary for private families; for by this alone, any gentleman, or other person, may manage, preserve, or cure their wines themselves. In this is contain'd all the methods now in use among vintners or wine-coopers, both at home and abroad; and many of them such, as were never made publick before. To which is added, a never-failing method to resotre all sorts of other liquors when pall'd, dead, or souer, so as to make them palatable, bright, and good.
Date: [between 1717 and 1733?]- Books
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The art of making wines from fruits, flowers, and herbs, all the native growth of Great Britain. Particularly of grapes, goosberries, currants, rasberries, mulberries, elder berries, blackberries, strawberries, dewberries, apples, pears, cherries, peaches, apricots, quinces, plumbs, damascens, figs, roses, cowstips, scurvy-grass, mint, baum, birch, orange, sage, turnip, cyprus wine imitated, gilliflower, mead, &c. &c. &c. With a succinct account of their medicinal virtues, and the most approved receipts for making raisin wine. The whole comprehending many secrets relative to the mystery of vintners never before made public; shewing not only how to previous accidents to which all wines are liable, but absolutely to restore those that are actually tainted, and give them the most agreeable flavour. To which is now added, the complete method of distilling, pickling, and preserving. The eighth edition. Revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged, by William Graham, late of Ware in Hertfordshire.
Graham, William, of Ware.Date: [1770?]