1880 Facts about Port and Madeira by Henry Vizetelly

The VUla Nova Wine Lodges—Vintage Ports.

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"was capable oftuming out 140 pipes, or 180 bogsbeads, or 240 quarter-casks per day, will eventually be able to fumisb double tbat number witbin tbe same period. Tbe wbole of tbe machi nery is driven by two horizontal engines,each of thirty nominal horse-power, with boilers on Galloway's principle. Many of the larger wine-shippers are shareholders in the undertaking, and hope by its aid to obtain good and strong casks without the labour aud trouble of keeping up expensive cooperages of their own. The price at which the company can deliver casks will very likely not be under what the shippers can produce them atin their own cooperages,butMr.A.W.Tait,the managing director, claims that the company's special system of tanking will render it unnecessary in the future to season the casks with wine, which of itself will be a considerable economy.

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