ON COLONIAL WINES. 
ever, both among our own and foreign consumers : 
" We can never rely on getting the same colonial wine 
twice together." " We have no sooner become accus- 
tomed to a particular kind that suits us, than we are 
informed there is no more of it." Now, on the other 
hand, when a Portuguese or Spanish house finds that 
an article has " taken," the very same can be supplied 
for ever, if it continue to be popular in the market. 
Puff Gorden's sherry, Hunt's and Offley's ports, &c, 
come to us year after year the same. To do more than 
hint at this point would inevitably lead me beyond my 
limits. Hitherto I have found by experiments only 
two white wines that I consider perfect for blending 
with red kinds — Aucarot and Shepherd's Reisling. 
One cause of the want of uniformity in the produce 
of many of our vineyards is the great variety of kinds 
of vines to be found in not a few of them. It is a 
mistake to allow this practice to continue one season 
longer than is necessary to ascertain two things — 1st, 
which of two, three, or four kinds yield the best wine 
in the particular locality? 2nd, which, bearing the 
above in mind, resist disease best ? Graft all the rest 
with these kinds. Were something of this nature 
done, and a distinctive character stamped on the pro- 
duce, and consequently an almost regular demand 
created for it by customers at home or abroad, there 
would remain no reason why the banks should not 
advance upon the stock in cellar as they do in Spain 
and Portugal, and as they do here on wool aud other 
merchandise. 
I would now direct the attention of the reader back 
to the " tables of spirit strength " and to the general 
.averages which I have recorded. I hardly need say 
