1827 Wine and spirit adulterators unmasked

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Commonly distinguished by the name of, Direct Madeira; on account of its being shipped direct from the Island of Madeira to this country, with- out the benefit of a voyage, to the West or East Indies. A very little, however, that is sold by our cheap advertisers and placarders as Madeira, possesses any part of it, in the composition, which they dispose of under its title. The best manu- facture of a fictitious resemblance of the real Wine, is said to consist, of a combination of cheap Vidonia, with a proportion of about one twentieth part of common dry Port, one tenth part Moun- tain, and about a fifth part Cape, the whole being mixed together. This compound, when properly fined, is considered excellent ; and, with that modest assurance, which distinguishes the whole tribe of advertisers, is sold under the denomination of c Old London Particular? or, any other appellation, by which ' they choose to designate it, with the greatest success ; which is aided, in no trifling de- gree, by the curious circumstance, of their prices being twenty per cent, less, and their profits ten per cent, greater, than the more scrupulous Wine Merchant, who does not attempt to adulterate. It will be necessary only shortly to notice the VIDONIA WINES, As they are termed, which are brought from the