THE MANUFACTURE OF WINE. 2.>3 



same tdble^ imported Jjy myself from the jjlace where made^ the 

 company could not distinguish the one from the other. I tliink 

 it would be well to push the culture of tliat grape, without 

 losing our time and efforts in search of foreign vines, which it 

 will take centuries to adapt to our soil and climate." 



Dated April 20th, 1810. 



" The quality of the bottle you sent me before satisfies mo 

 that we have at length found one native grape inured to all 

 the accidents of our climate, which will give us a wine worthy 

 the best vineyards of France. When you did me the favor of 

 sending me the former bottle, I placed it on the table with some 

 of the deet Burgundy of Chamberlin, which I had imported 

 myself from the maimer of it, and desiring the company to point 

 out which was the American tottle, it was acknowledged they 

 oould perceive no ditFerence." 



Dated April 11, 1823. 



" I received successively two bottles of wine you were so 

 kind as to send me; the first, called Tokay, is truly a fine wine, 

 of high flavor, and as you assure me there was not a drop of 

 brandy or other spirit added to it, I may say it is a wine of a 

 good body of its own. The second bottle, a red wine, I tried 

 when I had good judges at the tahle; we agreed it was a Avine 

 one might alicays drinh with satisfaction, but of no peculiar 

 excellence. Speaking of brandy being added to the wine, lie 

 Siiys it is never done but by the exporting merchants, and then 

 only for the English and Am'erican markets, where, by a viti- 

 ated taste, the intoxicating quality of wine, more than its fiavt)i', 

 is required by the palate." 



Xow Mr. Jefferson and his friends were no donht 

 accustomed to drink good wines, and we tliink tlieir 

 opinions valuable, although at the same time it must 

 be confessed that they were not very extraordinary 



