1872 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks (Mixellany)

36 Wines. Voslauer is a good clean amber wine, and very sound. The sparkling Voslauer will hold its own against any Champagne." Hungary is estimated to produce 9 6,0 0 0,0 0 0 gallons of wine—wine being the universal beverage of the nation—of which the best known is Tokay, as the wine of that particular district is called. Imperial Tokay is a very rich luscious wine, of peculiar flavour, and exquisite 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 £3 6s. per bottle. This particular wine has been known to realize as much as £36 per dozen at Cracow, which is the principal depot for it. 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