1880 Facts about Port and Madeira by Henry Vizetelly

JEHderhenries and Logwood—General remarhs aio7it JPort. 147

tare and due ventilation are necessary,it is essential that the cellar should not be too cold. Port is very easily chilled, its constituent parts,owing to the amount of colour,&c.,it contains, requiring more heat than any other wine to hold them in solu tion. At the same time the old plan of bm-ying it in sawdust is to be shunned,as if this gets damp it generates a degree of heat far from conducive to improvement. Indeed, for laying down Port or anyother wine in a cellar ofa proper temperature there is nothing better than the patent"slider" iron wine-bins of Messrs. W.and J. Bvurrow, of Malvern. In them the bottles

Uu^^rU-^sAv WINE-CElLAll PITTED WITH BUBEOW'S PATENT"SLIDEE" BINS. rest on horizontal parallel bars of wi'ought-iron securely riveted into strong wrought-iron uprights both at the back and front, so that the pile of bottles stands as steadily as a rock,and there is not the slightest chance of any shock being likely to cause the crust to slip or otherwise disturb the wine. These"slider" bins are, indeed, especially adapted for laying down Port. When binning the wine the bottles are held by their necks and shot horizontally into their places with the utmost ease and