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Report of Committee on Wines. 



Vol. X. 



Report of the Committee on Wines. 



[Appointed by the Cincinnati Horticultural Society 

 in 1844.] 



The Cnmmittee on Wines, beg leave re- 

 spectfully to report : 



That in order to fulfil the duty assigned, 

 them, of examining the specimens of the 

 Wines produced in our neighbourhood, they 

 assembled at the house of the president, 

 where all those specimens which had been 

 sent to the Society, were collected and ar- 

 ranged, and your committee then and there 

 submitted them to the proper investigations, 

 secundein artem. 



Your committee, although by no means 

 diffident in respect to their own skill and' 



talents, in estimating the true character of 

 the articles whose qualities they were called 

 'upon to determine, judged it expedient to ask 

 Itlie aid of several German gentlemen, who 

 jhavebeen accustomed to judge of thequalities 

 of theEuropean Wines, to which those of this 

 'region bear the strongest resemblance ; and 

 [in compliance with this request, Messrs. 

 jBrachman, Werk, and Rehfuss, attended 

 j their session, and politely afforded them the 

 jaid of their judgment and experience. 



The Wines were designated by labels, 

 which referred to sealed descriptions of their 

 ages, owners, &c., and which were not 

 opened until the judgments respecting them 

 I had been pronounced and duly recorded. 

 The subjoined table gives the result of their 

 'trial. 



Marks & Nos. 



C. A. 1837. 

 " 1844. 

 " 1835. 

 " 1834. 

 " 1843. 



" 1837. 

 " 1838, F. 

 « 1831, F. 

 R.H.1837. 

 R. 7. 

 M.C.1843. 

 S. E. 

 B.H. 

 C. A. No. 8. 

 No. 3. 

 No. 7. 

 German Label 

 K. F. No. 1. 

 No. 2. 

 C. A. No. 4. 

 " JSo. 6. 



" No.]. 

 S. F. 1. 



N. 60. 



70. 



50. 

 No. 40, N. 

 No. 10. 



No. 3, M. 

 No. 34, M. C. 

 No. 37, " " 

 No. 35, M. 

 No. 44, M. C. 

 No. 2. 2d. 

 No. 41, C. 



No. 1. 2d. 

 No. 34,. 



Verdict of the Judges. 



Name. 



Good, 



New, not matured. 



Very good, resembling old Madeira, 



Fine, resembUng Muscat or Malmsey, 



Good lor new wine, with age will be of the 

 best quality. 



Good, high flavored, 



Superior to any of the previous specimens 



Good, resembling Hock, 



Good dry wine, 



Good, 



Best new wine, will be superior with age. 



Not good, 



Good dry wine, but supposed to be foreign. 



Medium quality, resembling Hock. 



Good strong wine, 



Not American wine, 



A good wine, but not the best. 



Inferior, a foreign wine. 



Good, about equal to No. 4, 



Good, about equal to or belter than No. 8, 



Good, considered by some better than No 

 8, by others not so good, 



Inferior to No. 8, 



Very good, resembles Manzinello, 



Good Cape wine, very ripe. 



Very good, resembling Madeira, 



Old wine, but indifferent, 



Poor, fermented on ihe skins. 



Not liked, supposed to have been injured in 

 the boltlo. 



New and good Catawba, 



Very good Cape, 



Good, but not equal to the preceding. 



Good, better than No. 34, 



New Cape, 



Good old wine. 



Very good Catawba, resembling Rhenish 

 more ihan any other, 



Tolerably good, 



Very good, old. 

 Do. do. 



Good new, not in a suitable state for judg- 

 ment, 



Catawba, 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. R. B. 



do. do. 



do. do. 

 French Wine, 

 German Wine, 

 Hockheimn, 

 1830, Catawba, 

 Spanish Manzinello, 

 1830, Catawba, 

 Old Hock, 

 1839, Catawba, 

 1837, do. 



1837, do. 



Catawba, 



Spanish, [skins. 



Cape, not fermented on 



Cape, ten years old, 



Lenoir, on the skins, 



Ohio Grape, 



Mo., 1841. 



By whom sent 



J. E. Mottier. 

 ^ do. 

 do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 

 Dr. Flagg. 



do. 

 J. Resor. 



do. 



J. E. Mottier. 

 A. Owen. 

 Mr. Brachman. 

 N. Long worth. 



do. 



do. 



do. 

 Dr. Rehfuss. 

 N. Long worth. 



do. 



do. 



do. 

 S. E. Foote. 

 N. Longworth. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 J. E. Mottier. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



N. Longworlh, 



do. 



do. 

 Dr. Smith. 



do. 



