1899 The Mixicologist by C F Lawlor

•THE MIXICOLOGIST.

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If the whiskey dealers allow the whiskey sold over the bars to deteriorate, while the other alcoholic bever ages sold far cheaper improve in quality, they must ex pect to lose business very rapidly. Wines of Hungary and Austria.—The wines ot Hungary, with the exception of Tokay, rank with the most inexpensive wines of Europe, quality considered. They are medicinal in a marked degree, promoting di gestion and being particularly rich in phosphoric acid. The lighter red wines resemble somewhat the clarets of the Medoc, as do the richer wines bear resemblance to those of Burgundy, and the white wines might bl compared with the product of the Rhinegau, but the- possess marked independent characteristics and have the generous but fiery individuality of the Magyar race which produces them. Wines of Italy.—Italy is the largest wine-produc ing country in the world, the annual product being over nine hundred millions of gallons. Vineyards exf tend throughout the length and breadth of the laney from the foot of the Alps in the north to the southern, most Sicily. Spain takes second place in the annua- yield of wine, but France is not far behind Spain in quantity, whereas in point of value of its annual vind age France eclipses every other country.