Wine, the vine and the cellar / [Thomas George Shaw].

  • Shaw, Thomas George.
Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wine, the vine and the cellar / [Thomas George Shaw]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    X. Wine Duties in 1806 and 1863, with the Standard Gauges of the Casks of each kind of Wine. 1806 Old Gallons Gauge 1806 Rate of Duty per old Gallon 1806 Total Duty per Cask 1863 Imperial Gallons Gauge 1863 Total Duty per Cask, at the rate of 2s. 6d. 1863 Total Duty per Cask, at the rate of Is. Usual Run in Bottles about s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £i s» d. doz. Lisbon . pipe 140 7 7 63 1 8 117 14 13 3 6 17 0 65 Port pipe 138 7 7 62 6 6 115 14 8 3 5 15 0 54 Sherry butt 130 7 7 49 5 10 108 13 10 8 6 8 0 52 TenerifEe. pipe 120 7 7 45 10 0 100 12 10 8 5 0 0 48 Sicilian . pipe 112 7 7 42 9 4 93 11 13 1 4 13 0 44 Cape and Madeira, pipe 110 7 8 42 3 6 92 11 10 7 4 12 0 43 Tent hhd. 63 7 7 23 17 9 52 6 10 0 2 12 0 29 French . hhd. 66 11 5 31 19 6 46 5 15 0 2 6 0 22 Rhenish . aum 36 9 5 16 19 0 30 3 15 0 1 10 0 14 XI. Mr. Groffs Pamphlet. The following extracts are from a pamphlet published in 1788, and lately found on a book-stall in Edinburgh. Its title is, ‘ A Treatise on the Wines of Portugal since the Establishment of the English Factory at Oporto, anno 1727. By John Croft, S.A.S., Member of the Factory at Oporto, and Wine Merchant, York.’ I am informed that this John Croft is the original Mr. Croft, of the still-existing and much-respected house of Thompson & Croft, of Oporto. WTiat he means by his allusion to ‘ the decadence and falling off of the Florence vintages,’ I cannot compre- hend :— ‘ It was about a hundred years ago that the Portugal wines were at the first imported into England, and chiefly or principally about the reign of Queen Anne, on the