1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty drinks by William Terrington

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Rhenish Whies.

others, but little On the seaboard of this district, 15 miles S.W. of Mont- pellier, is the port and town of Cette, famous as the great manufacturing depot of fictitious wines and liqueurs. We will now visit another land, known in this country.

“ Where the Rhine his course does hend, Rich vine-covered hills among.”

The Rhine and the Vine have for centuries been associated together, and the Germans are as fond of their wines as they are of their river, which they fondly call the Father of Wine. That glorious river, with its majestic beauty and vine-clad banks, offers to the admiration of the traveller a lovelier scene than any other river can present ; more espe- cially along its course between Mentz and Coblentz. The choicest vintages are confined to a small dis- The vine-tract of Hochheim, a village situated on the river Main, producing wines of like nature and excellence, which are classed with the Rhine growths. These wines are extensively imported into this country, and it would seem that this last-mentioned kind especially, has, by our abbreviation of its name to “ Hock,” served as a trict called the Rheingau, which extends from Riidesheim to Mentz.