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A history and description of modern wines / By Cyrus Redding.
- Cyrus Redding
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A history and description of modern wines / By Cyrus Redding. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![gives an experiment made by Mr. Hamilton, his friend, at Painshill, proving that good wine has and can be made in England, and that such wine has been sold at seven and sixpence and ten and sixpence a bottle. The work of Henderson is engrafted upon Barry’s plan, and a good deal of the substance is taken from it; titles of the chapters, or the general divisions, as well as all worth taking, are abstracted. The volumes naturally differ in the treatment of the subject, the latest having the ad- vantage of the modern discoveries in chemistry, and of that advanced state of knowledge on the part of its author which the difference of the times and a correction of the errors of Barry in the part on ancient wines would natu- rally cause. This work is before the public; and though it is no part of the plan of the present volume to illustrate modern wines by the very imperfect and glimmering views which can be obtained of the ancient, a few remarks on one or two passages may be made. ‘That the wines of the ancients differed from those most in repute in the present time is clear, although it is very probable that in Cyprus, and the East, there are wines at this day closely resem- bling the ancient, the most prized of which, as well as the purest, were generally of the sweet and luscious kind. ‘The flavour of wines made in Italy from vines suffered for the most part to luxuriate and grow without pruning, would hardly please a modern palate, especially when mingled with sea-water, tainted with resin, and rendered viscid by the smoke of the fumarium. Yet, as the fumarium was used more to mellow the wines by heat than smoke, and time removed a good deal of the taint, the flavour might not be so objectionable as it appears on the first reflection. The oldest account of ancient wine that can be deemed ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33095012_0001_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
