IQ4: GRAPE CULTURE AND WINE-MAKING. 



12. Besides many others of first-rate quality too numerous to 

 mention, there arc also of prominent notoriety the wines of Vi- 

 sonta, Erlau, Presburg, Ratchdorf, St. George Posing, Modern, 

 Gruan, Limbach, Tyrling, Shenkvitz, Ducova, Nusdorf, Neustadt, 

 etc. 



13. Among the wines of Croatia is the Moslavina, equal to the 

 Burgundy ; the Babulek and Bukovetz, the most prominent for 

 their rich aromatic savor and strength. 



14. The wines of Banat, in Lower Hungary, are also generally, 

 on account of the warm climate, very spirituous, mild, and spicy. 

 The best of them is furnished by Vershitz, near the Turkish 

 boundar}^, and Weiskirchen. 



To give a slight insight into the enormous wine production of 

 Hungary, I will here mention only a few instances : Promontory, 

 a single hill, 55,000 barrels a year; Teteny, a village, 65,000 bar- 

 rels yearly; St. Andree, a village, 70,000 barrels; Menesh, 470,000 

 barrels; Petsh, a town of considerable extent, 500,000 barrels; 

 Tolna County, 700,000 barrels. In this county the village of 

 Seksard alone averages }■ early 250,000 barrels, and the county 

 of Pest 255,000 barrels. Hungary may be therefore rightly class- 

 ed among the first vine-growing countries, her wine produce be- 

 ing neither in quality nor quantity second to any other country 

 upon the globe. Francis Schams, in his celebrated work, esti- 

 mates the yearly average yield at 30,000,000 barrels. One thir- 

 ty-second part of the cultivated lands in Hungary is planted with 

 grape-vines, 



[For an account of the wine products of France the reader is 

 referred to other portions of this volume. — A. H.] 



III. 

 THE RHINE WINES. 



Both banks of the Rhine, from its outlet, several hundred miles 

 in circumference, up to the city of Bonn, display to the eye, with 

 but little interruption, their innumerable vineyards. All the 

 wines which are made in these districts should properly bo called 

 Rheinwines ; but, for the purpose of each particular wine being 

 the more easily distinguished from that of any other, the name 

 of the particular district where each kind is produced is com- 

 monly adopted as the title of the wine, namely, Elsasser, Seawine, 

 Marggriiffer, Aarblischer, Zaardtwinc, and Naahwine. 



Those wines only which are called " Rheingaus," and those 

 made in the vicinity of Maycnce and on the left bank of the river, 

 are by custom designated by the especial name of " Rheinwines ;" 

 and, indeed, these sorts are eminently entitled to this mark of dis- 



