1880 Facts about Port and Madeira by Henry Vizetelly

In the Fort Wine Country.

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safety and they canbe withdrawn with equal facility and without the slightest risk of shaking or in any way disturbing their neighbours. All risk of breakage is avoided by each bottle having an independent bearing,which preventsthe upper bottles from either faUing or weighing down upon those below, and thereby crashing together. Another great advantage is that there is no waste of space, for individual compartments can always be refflled with fresh bottles after the other bottles have been removed. The bins may be obtained of any gize that is, to hold from two to forty dozens and can be had famished with lattice doors secured by a lock. The larger ■of the two annexed engravings shows a wine-ceUar entirely fitted up withBurrow's patent " slider" -wine-bins; whilst the smaller ■one represents a bin suited for the laying down of twenty dozens of Port, and yet measuring merely 5 feet 8 inches by 3 feet.

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