190 AMERICAN GEAPE GROWING 



CHAPTER XLIV. 



EGG HARBOR WINES— EARLY WINTER GRAPE— COST OF A 

 VINEYARD. 



EGG HARBOR WINES. 



The following is extracted from an account in the 

 *^ American Wme and Grape Grower," November, 1879, 

 of a visit to Egg Harbor, N. J. With a view to make 

 their wines better known, the owners of the leading vine- 

 yards, at Egg Harbor, some years ago inaugurated an 

 annual reception, to which prominent citizens of Phila- 

 delj^hia and others are invited. On this occasion 



" The representative wine-growers who were visited 

 spared no pains to throw open every source of informa- 

 tion and provide all possible means of comfort and plea- 

 sure for the visitors. After passing upon the well-known 

 merits of the white ' Martha ' and red wines of J. Ful- 

 ler, the party visited Heil's vineyards, where similar 

 wines were tested. Capt. Saalman's favorite, ' Black 

 Rose,' next underwent the trial of the connoisseurs, and 

 the party then visited the leading wine-grower of the 

 place, Julius Hincke, prominent as the man who placed 

 his celebrated ' lohlink ' and ' Franklin ' wines in com- 

 petion with those of France and the rest of the world at 

 the Paris Exhibition. These wines took a medal there, 

 as they had previously done at the Centennial. 



^' After an address of w^elcome by Mr. Hincke, ex-Presi- 

 dent Lucas took occasion to express his gratification over 

 the fact that these wines met with high favor, not only 

 in New York and the other principal cities of America, 

 but also in England and on the European continent. 

 They were superior, he said, to Burgundy wine, and had 

 already raised New Jersey to a place among the leading 



