1857 The Bordeaux wine and liquor dealers' guide

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A TREATISE ON

· Should stand at least ten days before using, and even two or three months greatly improves it.

Wliskey, common.-See Appendix.

FOREIGN WINES.

Of ell liquors, Wine seems to be the most ancient. Even (as it is supposed) 2348 years before OM-Ut, "Noah planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine and was drunken." This seems to be the ear– liest reliable date at which mention is made of fer– mented liquors. Though earlier profane and my– thological historians speak of wine, there is nothing reliable in their writings on which to base correct conclusions. The earliest period at which wine was submitted to distillation is undecided. By some, the Chinese are thought to have possessed the ear– liest knowledge of this process ; others claim the northern nations of Europe as the first to apply the principle of distillation. Herodotus, however, mentions date-spirit.a~ as an

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