AMOUNT OF ALCOHOL IN WINE. 



185 



Wine from Libanon , 



,, from Syria 



from Cyprus 



from Rhodes 



from Corfu 



from Samos 



,, from Smyrna 



1 year 

 6 years . 



Malaga wine has been analysed in detail by Mayer. 



In seven kinds of this wine, prepared by boiling 



down the must, the following contents were found : 



If we select one of the last two kinds given here, 

 and calculate the sugar originally contained in the 

 liquid from which this wine was prepared, we shall 

 find it 40 per cent., the evaporation to which the 

 grape juice was exposed having raised it to this 

 amount. 



