Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon].

  • John Timbs
Date:
1838
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Credit: Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    way; because a transition from the strong, branched wines to the lighter, is always followed by a derangement of the digestive organs. Claret was formerly drank in great quantities in Edin- burgh; and was cheap, from its being admitted into the port of Leith on Spanish instead of French duties, as at pre- sent. Claret, genuine and undoctored, is particularly good as a dinner wine, and is in the true taste. The unmixed, unadulterated Bordeaux wines, not many removes from that known throughout France as vin ordinaire, ttin du pays, or the common wine of the country, are gradually becoming favourites in England. The palate of an Englishman, however, is not immediately reconciled to this simple beverage; but, if a man wishes to get up in the morning with a clean tongue and a clear head, to avoid disease, and yet to enjoy his glass, let him drink the pure Bordeaux wine of la belle France. If brought to table cool, in the summer, it is a most refreshing beverage, and strong enough for any one who wishes to retain his reason. The price in France does not exceed two francs the bottle.—Nimrod, in Fraser’s Mayazine. Vin-de-Bar, which grows at Bar-le-Duc, is a wine not much known in England, but is in considerable estimation in France. It is rose-coloured, pleasant in flavour, and sells in its native country at about 8 sous per bottle. The light Rhenish and French dinner wines now in fashion, are, according to Mr. Mayo, greatly inferior to good table-beer, and are much less wholesome: they are com- monly drank because they are wine, by those with whom strong wines disagree. Dr. Henderson, however, considers Rhenish wines to have a diuretic effect, and to diminish obesity. Among the Rhine wines, (improperly called hock in Eng- land), the Johannisberg and Steinberg rank first, and are on an equal footing for their exquisite flavour and evanes- cent bouquet. Next follow Rudesheim (Berg) Marko- brunncr and Rothenberg, which possess much body and aroma. Hockheim, (which grows on the banks of the i<
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