The British wine-maker and domestic brewer .... Containing also a supplement on the rhubarb plant / [W.H. Roberts].

  • Roberts, W. H. (William Henry)
Date:
1849
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Credit: The British wine-maker and domestic brewer .... Containing also a supplement on the rhubarb plant / [W.H. Roberts]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS, PART I. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MAKING OF BRITISH WINE, WITH THE AID OF THE SACCHAROMETER. Introduction contains the following:—Cyrus Redding on the adulteration of Port wine, Sherry, Madeira, Claret, Bucellas, Cham¬ pagne, &c., and particularly giving an example of the fabrication of eight pipes of what is termed “ superior Port wine,” &c., with an anecdote of a deception successfully practised on George the Fourth —An Oporto wine-merchant’s account of the shameful and disgusting treatment which Port wine undergoes before leaving Portugal— Professor Liebig’s analysis of some Foreign Champagne, submitted to him in 1846, where deleterious substances were discovered— Accum on the adulteration of Foreign wines, with the sophistical methods used, and also the deleterious substances employed in their fabrication—The fact of a family having been poisoned in Rox¬ burghshire by drinking Foreign Champagne, Arsenic having been found by Professor Christison in the remainder of the bottle —Four amusing anecdotes of the author’s wines having been drank as Fo¬ reign, without detection—Two extraordinary receipts, extracted from a popular work on wine-making, 13th edition—Dr. Maccul- loch’s practical remarks on the substances of numerous of our na¬ tive fruits which are suited for wine-making, namely, Tartar, Su¬ gar, vegetable extract, Water, Colour, Tanning principle, Flavour &c.,and his views as to the manipulation of the various processes —A recently discovered basis for British wines—Diagram of Ro¬ berts’ Sacckarorneter, with the description and uses—A table giving the specific gravities of the juices of all kinds of our native and foreign fruits, as well as roots, &c., capable of producing wine—