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

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WINE.

The clear wine should be racked off in the month of January, and fined by isinglass dis– solved in old wine of the same kind. Fron1 thirty-five to forty-five days after, a second fining takes place, and, if the lees are consider– able, a third may be found necessary. The clear wine is drawn off in the month of ~lay into bottles, adding to each a s1nall measure of liqiwr, which is merely three per cent. of a sirup inade by dissolving sugar candy in white wine. \Vhen the bottles are filled, and the corks secured by pack-thread and wire, they are laid on their sides, with their mouths sloping downward at an angle of twenty or twenty-five degrees, so that any sediment contained in them may fall into the neck. At the end of from six to twcl ve days the slope is increased, when they are slightly tapped, and placed in a vertical position; then, in the course of some clays, the cork is partially removed, to allow the sediment to be forced ont by the prnssnre of the gas. An additional quantity of liquor