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it tested, and obtain at once, in cash, its fair value, as 
he could for a load of wheat or oats. Such companies 
would soon supply the whole of the retail shops, and 
from the quantities in their cellars something like a 
uniform article might be supplied. Fourthly, in the 
instance of the more wealthy owners of vineyards, 
while their stock of middling wines would be kept 
down by selling to the companies, their experiments 
on their better growths would be carried on with more 
care and less anxiety about money matters. And 
lastly, the banks would be brought to the ordinary 
common sense of banks in Portugal, and make advances 
on wine in the cellar, on the report of competent 
judges, just as they now do on gold or station produce. 
I have caused the following samples of Victorian 
wines to be distilled, and have determined their spirit 
strength according to Sykes' (British proof) strength. 
VICTORIAN DISTILLED WINES. 
Name of Maker. 
August Heine . 
55 55 
Bruhn Brothers 
'» 55 
55 ) J 
55 ,J 
F, Mellon " 
55 55 
55 55 
H. de Castella 
Chas. Maplestone 
Name of Wine. 
Eeisling . . 
Hermitage 
Mataro 
Carbinet Sauvig 
non 
Carbinet . . 
Eeisling .. 
Verdeilho 
Muscat . . 
Pineau . . 
Esparte (Mataro) 
Pineau . . 
Chasselas 
Hermitage 
Large and small 
Eeisling 
1869 
1869 
1868 
1869 
1869 
1869 
1870 
1869 
1870 
1870 
1870 
1871 
1869 
1871 
1868 
1870 
