Amnial Meeting of the Mississipjjl Valley Grape Growers' Association. 151 



THE PREMIUM. 



The Committee on Concord Winos 

 f 1869, which were entered for the 

 remium of f25, offered by Medsrs. 

 mdlow, Saylor & Co., awarded the 

 remium to Dr. H. Clagett, of Gray's 

 ummit, Mo. The wine would be 

 lassed as white, a rather golden 

 rownish color^ very smooth, agree- 

 blc in flavor, and remarkably well 

 nished for new wine. It was, in fact, 

 Imost too good to admit the belief 

 hat it was purely Concord. Dr. 

 Jlagett states that it is absolutely 

 uro juice. 



There were nine samples in com- 

 etition, and all excellent wine. That 

 f Messrs. A. and F. Starr, of Alton, 

 11., was also a white wine and very 

 early equal to the premium wine. 

 Lfter deciding the premium the sam- 

 les wore graded as follows : 



No. 1, 8. H. Long, Alton, Ills., 

 ;rade SO. 



No. .% Julius Mallinckrodt, Augusta, 

 lo., grade 75. 



No. 3, Dr. H. Clagett, Gray's Sum- 

 ait, ]Mo., grade 921. 



No. 4, Cliff Cuve Wine Company, 

 io., grade 80. 



No. 5, Cliff Cave Wine Compan}', 

 io., grade 75. 



No. 6, Augusta Wine Company, 

 »Io., grade 85. 



No. 7, Bluffton Wine Companj-, 

 klo., grade 85. 



No. 8, A. and F. Starr, Alton, Ills., 

 jrade 90. 



No. 9, C. Paffrath, St. Louis county^ 

 yio., grade 85. 



lEPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NEW AVHITE 

 WINES. 



Your committee to whom the sam- 



ples of new white wine were referred 

 for examination, ask leave to report. 

 There were presented as follows : 



Catawba No. 6, Golden Bluff Vine- 

 yard, grade 82. 



Catawba No. 8, Julius Mallinckrodt, 

 Augusta, grade 78. 



Catawba No. 9, Julius Mallinckrodt, 

 Augusta, grade 77. 



Mixed Catawba and Concord^ Louis 

 Winter, grade 75. 



Mixed Goethe and Taylor, C. 

 Braches, gi-ade 65. 



Hartford, Cliff Cave Wine Company, 

 and Bluffton Wine Company, both 

 graded 65. 



Goethe, E. A. Eiehl, Alton, grade 

 62. 



lona. Dr. H. Clagett, grade 75. 



Cunningham, A. Engelman, grade 

 80. 



Herbemont, Louis Winter, grade 87. 



Delaware, Golden Bluff Vineyard^ 

 Warsaw, Ills., grade 83. 



Delaware, E. A. Thompson, Cin- 

 cinnati, O., grade 80. 



Taylor, A. Engelman, Shiloh, Ills., 

 grade 80. 



This last was not as good as we 

 generally lind from this grape. Your 

 committee also note in both samples 

 of Goethe, whether pure or mixed, a 

 strong foxy flavor, which must detract 

 from the value of this variety, unless 

 it disappears with age. 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. M. Pearson, ") 



E. S. Hull, v Committee. 



Geo. C. Eisenmeyer, ) 



The reports of the other committees 

 have not come to hand. We have 

 some notes of their grading, w^hich 

 wo give as follows : 



