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

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LOUIS' MIXED DRINKS

HOCK and other German wines. CYPRUS. This new wine is of a bright amber hue, which becomes a dull brown with age. The bitter taste observable in the young wine develops into a smooth, nutty flavour when aged. It possesses balsamic proper- !i ties of value. GREEK. This wine somewhat resembles Burgimdy in taste and character, but with rather more body and roundness of flavour. When young it possesses a slight acidulous taste, which disappears with age. Hochheimer, a light, pleasing, wholesome, deli cate-flavoured wine, which improves with age, and for some time increases in strength. Other varieties are: Brauneberger, Deidesheimer, Dreimanner,Grafenberg, Johannisberger, Joseph- hofen, Kesselling, Konigsbach, Liebfraumilch, Marcobrunnen, Rosenberg, Rothenberg, Rudes- heimer, Niersteiuer, Travem, Turkhehner, Stein- wein. HUNGARIAN. These wines are soxmd, durable, and abundant, the produce of a prolific soil, rich in flavour, aroma,and delicacy. MADEIRA. A fragrant and delicious wine,golden in colour, which gains great mellowness and soft ful ness of flavour with age, yet not without a delicate ptmgency. ITALIAN. Italian wines are mostly red, and although some of them are excellent,they are chiefly prepared for home consumption, most of the wines being bottled in the old Roman style, in large glass flasks, with oil on the top. The kind best known in America is Chianti. Malaga. A sweet wine, very powerful, and in high repute. A peculiar flavotxr is given to it by

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