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by mere percolation of the grape, such is Tokay. Dm- 

 terion of the Greeks, is pressed, or rather wine made by 

 mashing the grapes. Nectar is made by a slight pressure 

 of the sweetest grapes. Essence of ivine made by expos- 

 ing wine to frost, throwing oflf the icicles, and thus con- 

 centrating the strength. It may be made as strong as 

 brandy, without its pernicious quality, is very portable 

 retains the perfume, and may be restored to wine by 

 adding water. Honey of wine, congealed by age in 100 

 years to the state of honey, may be restored by warm 

 water. Solar wine, exposed to the sun, made by it 

 thicker, sweeter, and milder. Crust of wine, some thick 

 wines, such as Arcadian or Morea, become hard and 

 dry like salt or argol by age, may be dissolved again in 

 warm water. The Lees or settlings of wine, are depo- 

 sited by fermentation and fining, they are rich in argol 

 and potash : from those of the best wines is made the 

 Oil of Wine, by a very slow distillation with water. This 

 oil which has the flavor and perfume of the peculiar 

 wine it comes from, serves to give it to other wines, or 

 to make false brandy with alcohol and water. 



Quelled wine is such as was stopped in fermenting by 

 throwing cold water in it, or exposure to cold weather. 

 Eager or Pricked wine is becoming sour by the acetous 

 fermentation having begun. Flat wine has lost its flavor 

 by being exposed to the air or other means ; many poor 

 wines become flat or sour by age ; they may be restored 

 by chemical processes, lime, plaster, brandy, oil of wine, 

 &c. Burnt ivine is any wine made hot, but not boiled 

 and drunk with spices, &c. useful for gout, cholics, and 

 chills. Wine is often employed in cookery, for sauces, 

 soups, ragouts, stews, puddings, and jellies ; it is al- 

 ways preferable to brandy and stronger liquids; the 

 ancients used to boil some fish in wine instead of water 

 as a luxury. 



Medicated wines are vehicles of various soluble medi- 

 cines, chiefly tonics, emetics, and febrifuges. They are 

 excellent preparations, although latterly some deluded 

 physicians have preferred alcoholic tinctures, which are 

 pernicious, unless used merely in drops. Wine tinc- 

 tures are milder, more palatable, and quite as efficient. 

 Those of iron, gentian, opium, colchicum, &c. are much 



