1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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to which it belongs, Wine of the Holy Ghost. wines are grown on Mt. Saint Nicolas.

Leisten

w ines

6'/r^z£/

are made in Franconia.

Calmus, a liqueur wine, like the

made in the territory of

sweet wines of Hungary, is

The best vineyards are those of Bischofs-

Frankfurt.

Wines of Saxony are of little worth.

Meissen

heim.

Naumburg makes some

and Guben produce the best.

small wines, like inferior Burgundy. The excellence of the Rhine wines has seldom perhaps been proved more clearly than by one who loved them well. Goethe, in his Aus einer Reise am Rhein, Main und Neckar^ says : '^ Niemand schdmt sich der Weinlust, sie rUhmen sich einigermaassen des Trinkens. Hilbsche Frauen gestehen dass ihre Kinder mit der Mutterbrust zugleich Wein geniessen, Wir fragten ob denn wahr sey, dass es geistlichen Herren, ja Kilrfursten gegluckt, acht Rheinische Maass das heisst sechzehn unserer Bou- teillen, in vierundzwanzig Stunden zu sich zunehmen ? Ein scheinbar ernsthafter Gast bemerkte^ man dilrfe sich zu Beantwortung dieser Frage nur der Fasten- eeredigt ihres Weihbischofs erinnern, welcher, ncichdem pr das schreckliche Laster der Trunkenheit seiner G- meinde mit den stdrksten Farben dargestellty also gesch- lossen habe — " But for those who understand not the German tongue we will give some of the sermon of this Church dignitary on the Rochusberg in English. '' Those, my pious brethren, commit the greatest sin who misuse God's glorious gifts. But the misuse ex- cludes not the use. Wine, it is written, rejoices man's heart. Therefore we are clearly intended to enjoy it.j Now perhaps, beloved brethren, there is not one of

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