The wine-drinker's manual.

Date:
1830
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The wine-drinker's manual. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. ON WINE-DRINKING, Apam and Noah—Ancient Physicians—Ancient Drink- ing—Quantity—The Poets—Statesmen—Medical quali- ties—National Drinking—Origin of Wine—Persia, &c. Page 1-15. WINES OF THE ANCIENTS: Greek and Roman Vineyards and Wines. 15-26. FRENCH WINES: Classification—Wines of Gaul—Modern Wines: Cham- pagne, Burgundy, Dauphiny, Bordelais, Languedoc, Pro- -vence, and Rousillon—Manufacture of Champagne and Claret-—Management—Count Chaptal on the choice of a Cellar—Bottling, Forcing, &c.—Wine-trade of France —Consumption, &c. 27-68. SPANISH WINES: Mismanagement of the Peasantry—xXeres, or Sherry— Paxareta—Tinta di Rota—Malaga—Alicant—Benicar- lo—Vine in Catalonia—The Canaries—Teneriffe—Vi- donia— Chacoli—Majorca and Minorca—Vineyards at Yepes. 69-81,
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