1860 A Treatise on the Manufacture , Imitation, Adulteration and Reduction of Foreign Wines, Brandies, .

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containing a large proportion of hydrogen and a small quantity of oxygen, together with the carbon of the sugar, must be formed." (LIEBIG.) The cenanth·ic ether and amanthic acid are other products of the deoxydation of the substances dissolved in the fermenting liquids; and although oonanthic ether and other volatile substances are formed from the deoxydation or -interchange of the elements of vegetable albumen and sugar, there are other causes which influence their production and peculiarities. The wines grown in France, owing to the large quantity of tar– taric and other acids which they contain, pos– sess, in a 111arked degree, the peculiar taste and odor, or 13oQUET ; whereas the wines of warmer climates possess little or none, owing to the absence of those acids. In the wines from the Rhine the perfume is powerful; the grapes, ripening late, and containing the largest pro– portion of acids: showing conclusively that the characteristic perfumes) and the acids of wines, h::ivc a certain connection-the acids seeming to