1895 Mixed Drinks by Herbert W Green

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MIXED DRINKS.

products of particular growths and of specified years. Th^ principal vines here used are the Cabernets, the Merlot and theMalbec for red wines, and the Semillon, the Sauvignon and the Mnscatelle for the white wines. The 'Medoc wines possessing snch great variety of qualities have necessarily been divided into payson, artisan, bonrgeois and fine growths,the last mentioned being subdivided into five categories and are known as "classed growths." Thus: Chateau Lafitte, etc., etc. Second growths.Chateau Mouton-Rothschild; Gi'uaud- Larose, St. Julien, etc.; Cos d' Estournel, St. Bstephe; Chateau Mont-Rose, etc. Third growths.Chateau Kir- win, Cantenac; La Grange, St. Julian. And so on in fourth and fifth growths including scores of names that brevity ofspace forbids mentioning. This classification is the result of years of observation and study from the eighteenth century,the present form being inaugurated by a convention of brokers in 1855. Row a word about Sauterne, which is so much prized in America as a breakfast wine. The name stands for certain white wines produced in the depart ment of Gironde,Prance. It is the special name of a wine made at Sauterne, a village on the left bank of the Gironde,some distance above Bordeaux. Then it is a general name for the white wines of similar char-