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ON VINEYARDS. 
Champaign I ever tajled. The firjl running was as clear as fpi- 
rits } the Jecond running was ceil de Perdrix, and both of them 
fparkled and creamed in the glafs like Champaign. It would 
be endlefs to mention how many good judges of wine were de- 
ceived by my wine, and thought it fuperior to any Champaign. 
they ever drank ; but fuch ss the prejudice of moji people againjl 
any thing of growth, I generally found it mofl prudent 
not to declare where it grew, till after they had puffed their ver- 
didi upon it. The furef proof I can give of its excellence is, that 
1 have fold it to wine- merchants for fifty guineas a hogfhead •, 
and one wine-merchant, to whom I fold five hundred pounds worth 
at one time, ajjured me, he fold fome of the beji of it from y s. 6 d. 
to I o /. 6 d. per bottle. 
.^fter many years experience, the befi method I found of making 
and managhtg it was this : I let the grapes hang till they had 
got all the maturity the feafon would give them } then they were 
carefully cut off with fciffors, ^nd brought home to the wine- 
barn, in fmall quantities, to prevent their heating, or prefjing 
one another ; then they were all picked off the ftalks, and all the 
mouldy, or green ones, were difcarded, before they were put upon 
the prefs ; where they %vere all preffed in a few hours after 
they were gathered, much would run from them, before the 
prefs fqueezed them from their own weight one upon another. 
This running was as clear as water, and fweet as fyrup, and all 
this of the firfi pr effing, and part of the fecond continued white ; 
the other prejjings grew reddifi:, and were not mixed with the 
befi. 
