60 On Colomal Wimes. 
I will now endeavour to bring you at once to the nature 
and conditions of my experiments, premising only that :— 
In the first place it occurred to me that, for some years 
to come, probably no individual could have the same chance 
of studying the best colonial wines as was offered to me. 
And secondly, taking into account the heat of the summer 
weather, and the extremes of heat and cold to which the 
office was exposed, the thermometer often standing for many 
hours at 90°, and then rapidly falling to 65°, there was 
afforded a range of trials, such as no wine cellar either of 
a merchant or a private individual can boast, for naturally, 
both the one and the other would strive to avoid such un- 
natural extremes. In my case this was just what I wanted, 
and I availed myself of it to the utmost. | 
The following forty-eight samples were taken at random 
out of more than one hundred, and they have turned out 
rather below the average of the whole in their keeping 
powers :— 
VICTORIA. 
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Name of Exhibitor. Name of Wine. as Remarks. 
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Te Biverist, Ti din hee Terret —. | Kept pretty well. 
2. Ivanhoe Lodge ... White Ivanhoe — | Kept for 10 days. 
3. Billing, N. ... | Shepherd’s Riesling | 1864 | Kept well. s 
4, Hewitt, J.... one No name 1865 
5. Hewitt, J.... Ay No name 1866 
6,-Morgan’s:..6/°* 5 Chasselas 1866 | Kept well for one month, 
afterwards cloudy. 
7. S.E. Le “ioe White Wine 1866 | Fairly. 
8. Dromana White — | Fairly for one month. 
9. Hope, Dr, R. C. ... White 1866 | Very well indeed, and im- 
proved. 
10. Hope, Dr. B.C. ... Riesling 
11. Weber Brothers ,., Hermitage 1866 | Kept well. 
12. Weber Brothers ... A Sweet Water | 1864 Do. do. 
13. Tronetti, J.P. :.. White 1866 | Turned after a few days. 
14. Weber Brothers ... Riesling 1865 | Kept very well 2 months. 
15. Heine, August... Chasselas 1866 | Do. and even improved. 
16. Meredith, T, ee Tokay — | Did not keep well, but re- 
mained bright. 
17. Viaminick Brothers White 1865 | Very good. 
18. Corowa Vineyard... Tokay 1865 | Did not keep well. 
19. Piper, W..... eee White Muscat 1864 | Kept well. 
20. Piper, W.... we Chasselas 1864 | Kept wonderfully, some of 
a bottle still remaining. 
21. Piper, W.... -- | White Marangau | 1864 | Like ammontillado sherry. 
22. Ross and Co. cae White © 1866 | Soon became discoloured, 
