The chemical testing of wines and spirits / by John Joseph Griffin.

  • John Joseph Griffin
Date:
1866
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Credit: The chemical testing of wines and spirits / by John Joseph Griffin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bodies, leaving only neutral organic bodies of unknown nature. If mere quantity of Extract, irrespective of quality, implied goodness in wine, then the wines in I able I. should be excellent in proportion as the numbers in columns io and 13 are high numbers; but miost cer- tainly the goodness of these wines were in no such proportion. 1 hese reasons show, that the goodness of wines is neither caused by a small proportion of acid nor by a large proportion of sugar or of extract; and we have previously seen, that it is not decidedly influ- enced by a preponderance of alcohol. To what then is the goodness of wines attributable ? This question is discussed in the next section.
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