Wine, the vine and the cellar / [Thomas George Shaw].

  • Shaw, Thomas George.
Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wine, the vine and the cellar / [Thomas George Shaw]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cooperage, wharfage, &c.; but if it is placed in the vault, there is a charge of about 20s. per pipe per annum, called the consohdated rate, which includes everything, and three months’ rent; but is exclusive of tasting, which is 2d. per cask each time. For this consolidated rate, the cask is under the care of the company, and if any accident occurs before it has been placed on the merchant’s cart, they must pay all damage. They are, however, not responsible for a loss of less than one gallon per cask per annum, it being considered that this may arise from natural evaporation and leakage; and thus, if a cask of 100 gallons were housed on the 31st of December, 1861, and taken away on the 30th of December, 1862, the quantity being found on regauging to be 99 gallons, the merchant could make no claim ; but if it were 98 gallons, he would be entitled to send an invoice to the company for 1 gallon. The dock charges are somewhat higher than at wharves, and in bonded vaults m provincial towns ; but the secmity, and the satisfaction of knowing that the casks are properly attended to, are worth an extra charge. It is, of course, impossible to prevent frauds occasionally in these and other es- tabhshments, but great care is used to check their occurrence. It is, however, to be hoped that the habit of keeping wines in bond ■wiU mot be con- tinued, for it is ruinous to every cask of pure