ON COLONIAL WINES. 2G1 
bad sample originally, and not good even now; one 
or two of Weber Brothers' ; DeTury and Langdon's 
white Hermitage ; and one of August Heine's. These 
seemed to improve to the last. Of the rest, one 
or two of Mr. Trouett's, of St. Peter's Vineyard, 
Great Western ; one of Dunoyer's, a few of Mr. Kitz's' 
one of Heine and GreifFenhagen's, and one of Gal- 
land and Junod's, of Pollocksford, Geelong; two of 
Meredith's, of Chewton • two of Dr. Hope's, of Bates- 
ford ; and Billing's Shepherd's Reisling, held their own 
up to about six years, but, for the most part, were 
then quite up to, if not past, their best. 
Owners of vineyards and traders in colonial wines, 
who are looking for foreign markets may, I think, not 
unprofitably make themselves acquainted with' the 
above results obtained in wines sent for exhibition • 
and, naturally, the best only in each owner's estimation 
would be sent. Nay, more, all these were bottled, 
and have been carefully put aside in a cellar of 
equable temperature, in the foundations of the Exhibi- 
tion Building. It is not unfair to conclude that the 
circumstances I have just mentioned place these 
samples in a far more favourable condition than they 
would have been had they been shipped to Europe in 
wood, tumbled about after arrival, and finally bottled 
and put aside. 
The details on next page of distillation of a few 
bottoms of bottles show the power of several of these 
samples to resist acescence. That is a great matter 
truly. But what I wish to state here is, that few 
showed any striking likelihood of improving after six 
years of age. 
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