58 On Colonial Wines. 
ABSTRACT OF THE AVERAGE STRENGTH OF WINES oF AUSTRALIA SHOWN 
AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION oF 1862, AND SUBSEQUENTLY 
ANALYZEDBY Dr. KEENE. 
Proof Spirit per cent. 
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2 
: Big (73a 
Seat of Growth. Colour. ae as $ oes 52 
or 7 » an of n oo 
ge | ¢2 g fa | 4S 
2 ef el AG : Pa ee ite 
Os oD < < 5 = oa) 
New South Wale ae Red — — 25°9 14:9 2 
Do. : don) 635. 365 White 246 189 22°7 13 4 
Victoria ... sed 530 Red 28 6 20:2 23°3 13°4 Tf 
Do. ClO aes ee | White 279 20:2 25°6 147 5 
Mataro- Victoria ... Sos Red — — 20:2 11:7 1 
Frontignac do. ... 545 # _ — 22: 12-7 1 
Hermitage do. ... eee 3 — == 20°8 12°0 1 
Burgundy do. ... oe ee 23°9 28°6 26°7 153 2 
Red Victoria _... cre a — ~ 28°6 16°5 1 
White do. = «| White — — 29°9 149 il 
Tokay ox Hie us a — 27°9 16°0 1 
White Pinean ie — — 24°6 14°1 1 
Australian Sauterne i — — - 20:2 11°6 1 
Chasselas ... ae bs iY _ — 24:6 14:1 1 
In every instance the average is about three per cent. of 
spirit stronger than I found it in the samples I distilled, 
which may be accounted for by either stronger samples 
having been chosen for transmission to Europe, or the not 
unreasonable addition of three or four per cent. of spirit to 
help them to bear the voyage. 
The remainder of my paper will have reference to a series 
of experiments, chiefly on the durability of colonial white 
wines, which I have but lately concluded. | 
Most of you probably know, that during the late Inter- 
colonial Exhibition I officiated as Special Commissioner for 
Juries, and also as chairman of the jury in class 3, section 
9, comprising all the exhibits of wine from the Australian 
Colonies. | 
I need not now say more in this place of the results of 
the examinations made by myself and my very able co-jury- 
men, than that they will be found so far as our judgment 
upon the excellence or the special goodness of the wines 
went, in the printed report of the jury of the section soon 
to be issued to the public. 
My object in mentioning these matters now, is for the 
purpose of introducing and to some extent defining the 
peculiar nature of the observations and experiments on 
