Wine and wine making
The bush which none but the poorest wine ever needed has been hung out alluringly as a tavern’s thirst-provoking sign-board to entice the pleasure-seekers of those lands where the grape will not, or may not, ripen for the wine-press, over all wines good and bad, true and false...
The bush which none but the poorest wine ever needed has been hung out alluringly as a tavern’s thirst-provoking sign-board to entice the pleasure-seekers of those lands where t...
2. Part 2That large tracts of the earth’s surface are eminently suitable for viticulture, though still virginal of the vine, such as—excluding the British Empire for the moment—parts of...
3. Part 3Strictly speaking, Champagne (where the term originated and where it is still extensively used), practically all other sparkling wines and most Ports, Sherries, Madeiras and Mar...
4. Part 4If real quality in Empire Wines is to be attained at all, it can only be by abandoning the existing methods of mass-production of Type-Wines and deliberately fostering the parti...
5. Part 5The undying snob in man reveals himself as much in the choice of the wines he drinks as in the clothes he wears or the conversation he affects. Waves of fashion that depend on t...