1895 Mixed Drinks by Herbert W Green

84 MIXED DRINKS. have long been jealously guarded but which are now being revealed. So we must for the present, as we have long in the past,look to France for the greatest amount of good wine. There are three classes into which wine is divided: dry wines, or those which are not noticeably sweet, but which are characterized by a quality known as "bouquet," or high flavor. Another class is that of sweet wines or liqueurs, which are rich in flavor, sac charine and alcohol. The third class are those not strikingly noteworthy for either sweetness or aroma. Within those classes we flnd red,white and tinted wines. France produces a great abundance and variet}' of red wines (clarets,) Bordeaux, Burgandy and Dauphine supplying tbose most esteemed. The Bordeaux kinds have a good deal of body and a full, agreeable bouquet, spirited and with a pleas- . ant astringency. Like most other products, they are of all qualities and grades but tbeir general characteristics are crispness, elegance and fine bouquet, and they improve by being'kept in wooden casks to assist evap oration, and in bottles after a certain period. In class first we bave Chateau Lafitte, Chateau Latour,Chateau Margaux,Haut-Brion. The Burgundy