1892 Drinks of the world

WINES.

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— Alcohol

— Various Meanings of Wine

Definition

Varieties oi — Brook of

— Miller

— Professor Mulder— Origin of Wine

Wine

— Strabo and Reland

— Francatelli's Order of Wines

Eshcol

Classification of M. Batalhai Reis.

IN the matter of wine, as in that of beer, it is perhaps as well to commence with a dictionary description or definition. Ogilvie declares it to be the "fermented juice of the grape, or fruit of the vine." of wine obtained from grapes, but dis- tinguished by naming the source whence it is derived, as currant wine, gooseberry wine, etc. ; and a third meaning of wine — a meaning with which we have happily little to do^ — is the effect of drinking wine in excess, or intoxication.^ Wines are practically distinguished by their colour, flavour, stillness or effervescence, and what is kaowa as hardness or softness. The differences in quality It is, however, also the juice of certain fruits, prepared in imitation

Noah awoke

1 In this sense it is apparently used in Gen. ix. 24 : **

from his wine"