1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty drinks by William Terrington

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Wines.

Voslauer

is a good clean amber wine, and very The sparkling Voslauer will hold its own

sound.

against any Champagne.”

Hungaiy is estimated

— wine being

to produce 96,000,000 gallons of wine the universal beverage of the nation — of which the best known is Tokay, as the wine of that particular

Imperial Tokay is a very rich

district is called.

flavour, and exquisite

luscious wine, of peculiar

delicacy. It is very choice, extremely rare, and is much sought after. Of the old wine (vino vitrauno) it is said the Emperor of Austria, desiring to present some to the ex-King of Holland, and the stock in the imperial cellars not being considered sufficiently aged, two thousand bottles were obtained from Cracow, at seven ducats the bottle, which makes the cost about £o 6 s. per bottle. This particular wine has been known to realize as much as £36 per dozen at Cracow, which is the principal depot Why it is sold at so fabulous a price can only be accounted for by its extreme scarcity, the demand greatly exceeding the supply. There is some excellent wine produced in the neighbourhood of Tokay, and it has been estimated that the dis- trict can produce 4,000,000 bottles of wine, but of this quantity not more than one-fourth is Ausbruch. The wine of Buda (or Ofen) was once a great for it.