26 s 



Method of ctjtring GRAPES 



/ 



partly under the mafti vat, to receive the muft as it runs 

 from it; if your vineyard be large you will alfo want a 

 kedlar, whicli is a large vat or ton, for fermenting the 

 murk that you make red wines of, and perhaps for that 

 of white wines, if you choofe to make wine of them after 

 the manner of Paris. If your vineyard be not large the 

 inalh vat may anfwer the purpofe. You will alfo want 

 pails and dippers and a large funnel to ton with: A fmart 

 clofe fcrew prefs, to go with one or two fcrews as you like 

 beft, with a wicker frame and hair bag to fit it, and proper 

 followers to prefs clean and-dry, muft be had without fail; 

 and laft of all good found ftrong iron bound butts or hog- 

 fheads, which are really cheapeft and the only cafks you can 

 depend upon, what makes them far preferable to others, is, 

 they are always tight, they want no trimming, only a little 

 driving once a year, if they ftand empty any time and they laft 

 good for many years, if they are well painted and dried 



till the fmell of the paint goes off^, other wife they would 

 communicate that ill fmell to the win^. And here my dear 

 countrymen I muft repeat to you what I have already endea^ 

 voured to Inculcate, which is, that every thing muft be 

 kept fweet and clean; if by carelefTnefs, inattention or 

 hurry of bufinefs, you fuffer your prefs or any of your 

 veffelsjyour tubs or cafks to grow four or mufty, they will 



certainly ruin your wine, for nothing in nature Is fooner 



tainted than muft or new made wine. And let me per-^ 

 fuade you to avoid one great error, which raoft farmers 

 run into, about their cyder, leaft that cuftom be put in 

 pradice alfo with wines; they put their cyder into frefh 

 rum hogftieads, under the notion of preferving the cyder 

 ftrong and good, but they deftroy the fine flavor of the 

 apple, and inftead of an agreeable vinous liquor, your 

 'nofe is offended with a ftrong hogo, and you tafle nothing 

 but the fumes of a rum hogftiead, fo that no gentleman, 

 no man of tafte or delicacy, will buy it; now ihould you 

 make the fame miftake with your wines, you would ccr-- 

 tainly fpoil them, were they otherwife never fo good, fu 

 that no man would buy them. It 



