1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Correct Wines for all Occasions

be moved until it is

wanted for table use.

Great heat

and the tempera-

unfavorable in keeping it,

or cold is

ture should be carefully attended to. Sauternes, wines of the Gironde, are white wines of considerable repute. They are bottled from the wood after seven or eight years, and are excellent dinner wines, particularly the Haut Sauterne. It ^s advisable in purchasing Sauterne to get that of the best quality. Sweet whines or dessert wines are not so much drunk as formerly, liqueurs being substituted for these '' vins de liqueurs," as the French term them. The Musca- dines, Frontignacs, and Lunals of the south of France, Lachryma Christi of Naples, sweet Syracuse and Cyprus, made between Paphos, Olympus, and Limasol, w^here is the great wine mart, are favorite sweet wines. It is not every bachelor who can boast a wine cellar ; indeed, save for one possessed of more than ordinary wealth, a cellar is an expensive luxury. The bachelor of Gray's Inn stored his wine under his bed, ** because horse," stowed his wines in a corner cupboard near his spa- cious fireplace, w^ith dire result; and a Scot who pur- chased a dozen bottles of choice vintage cellared them When evening was advanced, not dreaming that his dozen were drunk out, he called his Jeannie to bring ** another bottle of No. 5." *' I wonder what it would be drunk fast." A Devonshire esquire who loved wine " better than anything but his in a cock-loft for a special evening at home with friends.

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