1891 Drinks à La Mode by Mrs de Salis

WINES AND SPIRITS

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Fin signifies wines of high qualities, uniting delicacy, age, and fragrance of flavour. Seve, the entire flavour of the wine which is apparent on being swallowed, as it combines the spirituous quality and aromatic particles which are liberated and volatilized as soon as it meets the warmth of the palate. Fmnent, when quickly affecting the head from alcohol and not from carbonic gas. Montant, as applied to champagne if affecting the head. Piquant, as applied to wines which are very dry and also to those in which the tartrates pre- dominate. Veloutd means wine of good colour and body, smooth on the palate. Dur, when a liquid is overcharged with tartar or tannin. Mou, wines that are viscid and flat. Vif, wine that is neither sweet nor dry, but well flavoured, bright in colour, and light though spirituous. Fort, applied to coarse, potent, and tonic wines. Vins dentrejnets are table wines taken between the dishes before dessert. Plat signifies flat from want of innate strength. Vinades, small wines, made by adding water to the must and pressing it ; mostly consumed by labourers abroad. The Order of Serving of Wines. When there are oysters as hors d'oeuvres, chablis is the proper accompaniment. After soup, sherry or Madeira. G ,