1895 Mixed Drinks by Herbert W Green

mixed drinks.

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catawba, made originally by Nicholas Longwortb of Cincinnati, are produced in great quantities. New- York,Missouri,Illinois and Pennsylvania are also large wine-producing States. Wines of inferior quality are made in a small way in all the States. In the Eastern and Middle States the Catawba and Ives Seedling are mostly grown, while in the South the Virginia seedling and Scuppernog grapes are the favorites,and those used for wine resemble the grapes of Germany and France, containing more acid and -flavor. Those grown on the Pacific Coast are of a milder and sweeter character like those of Spain. Mildew, blight and grape rot have interfered with grape culture in some localities, hut Philloxera is not so had as in France. True Americans always take pride in anything that is pui-ely and simply American. While drinking claret and certain other wines,unless we are fairly good judges, we do not know whether they are foreign or domestic. But catawba wine makes no pretenses to foreign nativity. It is merely what it seems—a good, palatable, invigorating American wine. Of course the vine hearing the beautiful,luscious red fruit from which this wine is made,came remotely from exotic plants, hut it has gained characteristics of its own. It was first cultivated along the shores of the great Catawba