1895 Mixed Drinks by Herbert W Green

94 MIXED DRINKS. and Moselles which are made both still and sparkling. "Hock," it will be remembered,is the contracted col loquial for Hochheim. Wherever we find representa tives of that sociable, thrifty and robust people, the Germans;—and where do we not?—there are we sure to find the wines of the Fatherland. The principal wine- yielding districts of Germany are Alsace-Lorraine, Laden, Wurtemberg,the Hessian and Bavarian Pala tinates and the Rheingau,the total annual output of which approaches close to 100,000,000 gallons. The white wines best known are Hochheim, Radesheim, Johannisberg, Forst, Hiersteiner, Marcobrunner, etc., and the reds most familiar are the Affenthaler and Assmannshausen. The high-flavored dry Rhenish wines are produced in thie territory from Coblence to Alsace, in the valley of the Rhine and its tributaries, the best being grown in the neighborhood of Mainz. The Rheingau,in which the choicest discriptions are grown, lies on the right bank of the river, while the vineyards of Hesse are on the left. The wines produced on the left bank are full-bodied and with good flavor,the best growths being Liebfraumilch,Hiesstein,Scharlarchberg and Forst which are considered nearly equal to the Rheingau wines, among which latter are the wines of Johannisberg and Steinberg. The vineyard of Johan-