68 ON THE ART OF MAKING WINE, 



British Grape Wine. 



I have chosen to throw into a separate section 

 of this essay, the remarks which I had to offer on 

 the art of making wine from Grapes of British 

 growth, on account of the greater importance of 

 this part of the subject, and also on account of the 

 neglect which seems to have attended that branch 

 of domestic wine-making. I hope to make it 

 appear that wines, not to be distinguished from 

 those of foreign growth, can, in this country, be 

 made from Grapes, and at a moderate expence ; 

 and that the success of this process is not at all 

 affected by the uncertainty which attends the 

 ripening of the grape in our climate. It is not 

 too strong an expression to say, that the use of 

 this fruit is calculated to supersede that of all 

 others, and that it is, in fact, almost the only spe- 

 cies of domestic wine which is worthy of serious 

 attention. 



The essays of Mr Pegge in the Archaeologia, 

 With the subsequent controversies which origi- 

 nated in the opposition of Mr Daines Barrington, 

 have established beyond doubt the fact, that vine- 



