1906 Louis' Mixed Drinks with Hints for the Care & Serving of Wines by Louis Muckensturm

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CHARACTERISTICS OF SOME OF THE

CHIEF WINES IN USE

AUSTRIAN. These wines are strong,generous,full- flavoured, and piu^e, with good bouquet. Those of the Burgundy type are especially excellent.

Chablis, a white Burgundy, with a pale amber colour, very delicate and pellucid, dry in quality and of an agreeable aroma. Chambertin, a sound, flrm, delicate - flavoured wine, with seductive aroma,and a taste that has been described as slightly suggestive of raspberry. Clos de Vougeot, somewhat similar in char acter to Chambertin, and an exquisite wine, which has been called the king of Burgimdy. Romanee,a rare and very costly wine, of rich and rubycolour,soft-flavoured,with a delicate bouquet. Other varieties are: Beaujolais, Beaime, Blaguy, Challonaise, Gorton, Macconais, Meurseult, Nuit, Pommard, Richebourg, and Volnay St. Georges. BURGUNDY. This is one of the finest wines, possess ing great richness of flavour and exquisite perfume, to gether with the more delicate qualities essential to a "vin tout excellent," the result of an eqrmble climate, favourable soil, and skilful management. The principal varieties are: CALIFORNIA, a generous,fine-flavoured wine of ex cellent bouquet. The lighter kinds have considerable delicacy and refinement.

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CANARY,an excellent and luscious white wine,sweet, yet with an acid principle,that develops with age.

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