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judges, or tliey would have detected a difference 

 between the French and American wines. The 

 question of superiority may sometimes be disputed 

 even by good judges, that of identity never. 



Good wine has also been made in the south of 

 England, as the following extract from Barry's work 

 on wines will show, and as it contains some practical 

 notes on wine-making, we give it entire : 



" The vineyard of Painshill is situated on the south side of a 

 gentle hill ; the soil a -gravelly sand ; it is planted entirely with 

 the two sorts of Burgundy grapes : the Auyernat, which is the 

 most delicate, but the tenderest; and the Miller grape, com- 

 monly called the black cluster, which is more hardy. The first 

 year T attempted to make red vsine in the usual way, by tread- 

 ing the grapes, then letting them ferment in a vat till- the hulls 

 and impurities formed a thick crust at the top, the boiling 

 ceased, and the clear wine was drawn off from the bottom. 



" This essay did not answer; the wine was so very harsh and 

 austere, that I despaired of ever making red wine fit to drink. 

 But through that hardness I perceived a flavor something like 

 some small French white wines, which made me hope I should 

 succeed better with white wine. Tliat experiment succeeded 

 far beyond my most sanguine expectations ; for the very first 

 year I made white wine, it nearly resembled the flavor of cham- 

 pagne, and in two or three years more, as the vines grew 

 stronger, to my great amazement, my wine had a better flavor 

 than the best champagne T ever tasted. The first running was 

 as clear as spirits, the second running was a>Al de perdrix^ and 

 both of them sparkled and creamed in the glass like champagne. 

 It would be endless to mention how many good judges of wine 

 were deceived by my wine, and thought it superior to any 

 champagne they ever drank ; even the Duke de Afirepoix pre- 

 ferred it to any other wine. But such is the prejudice of most 

 people against anything of English growth, I generally found it 

 most prudent not to declare where it grew till after they had 



