2G0 ON COLONIAL WINES. 
exceptions, from South Australia. The whites kept 
their properties longer, and in higher perfection, than 
the reds. 
Prominent among the old white wines were those of 
Messrs. Patrick Auld (Auldana) ; Gilbert's Yerdeilho 
and Keisling; Peake's Reisling, Verdeilho, Palomino- 
Bianco, and Pedro Ximenes, and one sample of strong 
sweet Gouais ; Greig's, of Dirlton ; Smith and Son's 
Sherry ; one Highercombe white, and two, known only 
at the time as AB and AZ, afterwards found to be 
the produce of Morialta, the vineyard of the late 
Hon. John Baker ; and last of the South Australians, 
Messrs. Winkel's and 'Charlesworth's samples of pure 
Tokay. With the two exceptions of the Highercombe 
and Morialta, the rest all partook of the character 
of sweetish wines, and two only contained less than 
twenty per cent, of proof spirit. 
The commissioners for New South Wales and for 
Western Australia removed their samples remaining 
at the close of the Exhibition of the wines from those 
colonies, and I had to do the best I could with a bottle 
or two of Bukkulla, a few of Carmichael's, and one or 
two of Doyle's Kaludah. No doubt all these were fine 
wines, and I regretted then and since that I had no- 
chance of thoroughly studying the king of New South 
Wales wines — the Bukkulla white. 
The Victorian wines, up to six years of age, held 
their own very fairly, but hardly more than three 
could be said to be on the improving side at the 
end of another year, that is, when about eight 
years old. Of these three, one is a white wine of 
the late Mr. Hopwood's, of Echuca, a notoriously 
