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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    RAC Racking—continued — port, 99 — in tbe cellars at Bercy, 280 — ■wines of the Rheingau, 290 — Madeira, 329 Railways made and being made in Spain, 143 Rancio, good old, 165 Reading-out entries in 1822, 3 Red wines of Bordeaux, mode of treating, 179, 180 — red Rhenish wines, 289 Regent, the Prince, anecdote of, and the Duke of Norfolk, 41 -— his anathema against Madeira and preference for sherry, 140 Reims, town and cathedral of, 221 Rendu, M. Victor, his investigations into the vine disease, 186 — his account of the Pi cardan wines, 186 Rent in the cellars at Bercy, 277 Bequire notes in 1822, 2 Resin mixed with Greek wines, 315 Revenue system in 1823, 5 Rheingau, vineyards in the, 285 — gathering and crushing the grapes, 286 — discharging the trodden grapes, 287 — pressing, 288 — frozen grapes and the wine made from them, 288 — red and white wines, 289 — drawing off from the lees, 290 •—• geographical position of the Rheingau, 293 — various kinds of grapes grown in the, 294 — details of the wines of the Rheingau, 295 et seq. Rheinweinlied, 292 Rhenish wines imported into Eng- land at an early period, 205 — price of, in the reign of Richard III., 206 — prices in 1381, 214 — manufacture of Rhenish, 284 ct seq. ROM Rhenish wines—continued — cultivation of the vine on the banks of tbe Rhine, 284 — Rheingau and Hessian -wines, 285, 295 — varieties in price and quality of Rhine wines, 290 — few good vintages on the Rhine, 292 — the popular Rheinweinlied, 292 — wine grown on the Rhine from Lorch to the Ahr, 298 — great prices at which Rhine wines are charged, 300 — purchases should be made direct from the grower, 301 — mode of treating acid wines, 302 — and of imparting the favourite amber colour, 302 — consumption of, and per-centage borne by, Rhenish to all other kinds of wine, from 1831 to 1862, 304 — compounds sold as Rhenish, 304 Rhone, wines of the valley of the, 259 — wines of the, passed off as claret, 175 — inundations of the river, 260 Richebourg wine, 250, 253 Riesling grapes grown in the .. Rheingau, 293 — at Steinberg, 295 Rivesaltes, delicious liqueur wine of, 269 — vintage in, 270 Robertson, Mr. Joseph, on the use of wine in Scotland in the 17 th century, 442 Rochelle, large shipments of wines from, in the 14th century, 29 Rocks, the, near Oporto, 118 Rose, Colonel, of Kilravock, his tavern bill, 35 Rock-water sherry, 132 Roman wines, ancient, 24 Romanee-Conti wine, 250, 251 — quantity produced, 252