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A history and description of modern wines / By Cyrus Redding.

  • Cyrus Redding
Date:
1836
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A history and description of modern wines / By Cyrus Redding. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hectares | Hectoli- Total Hectolitres| Hectoli- =o Departments. of tres par) Hectolitres Value in of Wine | tres of | § 8 Vines. |Hectare.| of Wine. Francs. distilled. | Brandy. . po} Seine et Oise 16,298 52°133 B49 1G), L457 GBB ry c cwis tao) 5 out epi etedne Sévres, Deux 15,885,16:'692,| 264,236) 3,399,262} 49.000) 7,000) 20° DOMMES aes. 62114 690 13, 600)42'... 2. Cease. TEE te hose foc « 20,631 21-00 433,209))\ BAT UGO LN wid deud s owasteet eles Tarn et Ga- ronne ....| 23,168)11°40} 264,360) 3,035,700 1,625 270} 20° IER 555 bao os 15,895 43°62 693,448) 8,303,780} 65,000; 12,000, 20° Vaucluse 22,038 16 362,208} 6,519,744; 15,000) 2,500) 20° Wenidlees) gens 13,374 25°193 336,982} 3,369,820) 11,000) 1,350} 22° VAENENS 0.0%. 21,423 20°67 435,451] 4,881,130} 416,000) 2,288) 22° Vienne Haute 2,351 15-524 36,506 OU DOTA! Pavere 5-0-5 %oil s 6 20's.etar oll elgteye VOSS.6S)sssweiewiere 3,116,32°67} LOO}B08YY 1,905,720). aol eden. Vionne 5 hs 33,630 23°393 886/604). 23,639,086). 60)... 00] 6 swe efeleos Totals... ./1,736,056 49.97 |35,075,689 540,389,298 5,229,880 751,945 .... Add Brandy extracted from the Murk ...,........ 70,015)-++« Total Brandy from the Vine i's o.c. ss teseies aie 2 fa LOU soe An attempt was made some time ago to value the French wines according to their qualities, by M. Chaptal. Without being founded on any positive data, these calculations carried the total value to 718,941,675 francs. The statement was an exaggerated one. ‘The totals of the Cadastre, and more minute inquiries, have established that the foregoing table comes as near as possible to the truth. The calculations of M. Chaptal thus made, it is, therefore, a waste of space to repeat here, having given the value of the wines in each separate department, with a total annually of 540,389,298 francs, or 22,516,220/. 15s. sterling. The mean exportation of all kinds of wine may be rated at something above 1,155,074 hectolitres annually, of which England takes only 14,367. These added to the wines consumed in dis- tillation, make about 6,384,953 hectolitres, leaving for wines drank in France, spoiled, manufactured into vinegar, and the like, 28,690,736. ‘The consumption of wine in all modes, there- fore, reckoning the French population at 31,000,000, cannot be any thing like a hectolitre per head per annum. The value of the wines and spirits exported in 1823 was
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