Wine : a series of notes on this valuable product and subjects suggested therefrom, together with some important references / by Alexander Webber.

  • Webber, Alexander.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Wine : a series of notes on this valuable product and subjects suggested therefrom, together with some important references / by Alexander Webber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    WINK-MAKING IN FRANCE — CARBONIC-ACID GAS. I JFtfteen. When fermentation is unnaturally arrested, the progress of ripening is materially impeded, for, in fact, the maturing cannot proceed until the fermenta- tion is finished, and although the fermentation may be checked, nature will always endeavour to assert itself. Sixteen. The process of wine-making at the present day is, I consider, carried out more perfectly in the south of France than anywhere else. Seventeen. Carbonic-acid gas is used for charging aerated waters, formerly known under the name of fixed air ; it is obtained by adding sulphuric acid to carbonate of lime, (chalk,) which is composed of carbonic acid and lime, the result of which is to form sulphate of lime, carbonic-acid gas being evolved.