1872 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks (Mixellany)

JRhenish Wines. 15 others, but little known in this country. 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,— " Where the Rhine his course does bend, 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- trict called the Eheingau, which extends from Eiidesheim to Mentz. 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 familiar designation with us of all Rhenish wines.