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taster alone is able to detect diseases at their incipiency, and, one might 

 almost say, before they have commenced, whilst the chemist can only 

 state the final consequence. In other words, one might say that whilst 

 the chemist is limited to making a diagnosis, the taster can make a 

 prognosis. 



In the case of some defects of wine, I have not confined myself to a 

 simple definition or description. I have also added notes, brief in some 

 cases, more extended in others, on the determining causes and the 

 means of prevention or cure. I have done this, believing it would be 

 useful to the taster or the dealer, who is not always fully informed 

 on all the details of technical oenology. With this information for a 

 guide, he will be better able to judge of the relative gravity of this or 

 that defect, and the dealer especially will be able to judge of the utility 

 or inutility of attempting to cure a wine of a certain defect. 



I have also tried wishing to be useful to the greatest possible num- 

 ber of readers not to neglect a secondary part, which has its impor- 

 tance in tending to make the consumer better appreciate the wine he 

 drinks. Profiting by the Consigli di un amatore di vini, I have indicated 

 the form of glass to be used with each kind of wine, how wines should 

 be presented and distributed during the repast, and how they should be 

 drunk. In this part, which I have called secondary, it is not to be 

 denied that fashion is the determining factor. 



And now the reader may judge if I have succeeded in my intentions. 

 Even though his judgment should not be favorable, I shall consider 

 myself fortunate in being the first as far as I know to call attention, 

 in an extended manner, to this part of oenology, which in former 

 treatises on the subject has been but lightly touched upon. 



G. GRAZZI-SONCINI. 



