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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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![which it is not now possible to ripen there. ‘The vineyards © of Etampes and Beauvais were at one time celebrated; but, according to a report made in 1830, no wine can now be made in the whole department of the Somme, in which those places are situated. M. Arago also instances the same — change of climate in England, as is proved by old chro- nicles. At one time vines were cultivated in the open fields throughout a large extent of the country, while now it requires care to bring grapes to maturity in the open air. M. Arago has inquired into the causes of this change, and thinks that a very marked change of climate has taken place both in France and England. “The cause,” he says, ‘is certainly not connected with the sun, a proof of which is given in the steadiness of the temperature of «Pales- tine.” The southern boundary of the wine country is in Asia, at Shiraz, in latitude 33°. The vine is grown in more southern latitudes, but no good wine is made south of that Persian city. Between Coblentz, or 51° north latitude, and Cyprus, 34° 30’, is comprised the vine district of Europe, an extent of sixteen degrees of surface, within which are found the choicest wines known. ‘The principal countries are, France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Sicily, Greece, Hungary, Styria, Carinthia, and ‘Transylvania. There is also some wine made in Russia, the larger part in the Crimea. In 183] no less than. six hundred thou- sand vedros, or nine millions six hundred thousand bottles of a red wine called Kokour, were made in that province. In North America the vine is cultivated with some success. Near Washington there is grown a species of grape named Cataroba, unknown in Europe, and at Boston there is a good grape, which is called Isabelle. ‘The Hock grape was introduced into Canada some years ago by German settlers, and also into the province of Ohio in the United States. In the southern hemisphere, at the Cape of Good Hope, in Australia, and in South America, the vine is successfully cultivated,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33095012_0001_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
