1927 Barflies and Cocktails

INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT WINES.

How Wines get their Colour.

Red Wine !s made from black grapes, and white wine from white grapes. However, the colouring matter only exists in the skins, consequently a curious fact is that while black grapes produce the fine red wines of Bordeaux. Burgundy, or the Cotes-du-Rhone, black g rapes also produce the no less famous golden beverage of Champagne. This result is obtained by using special pressing tables, which separate the juice from the skins of the grapes before fermentacion sets in, the colouring matter being in the skins. White wine is thus obtained. The principal wine- producing regions are : Anjou. Bor– deaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Cot~s-du-Rhone. Famous vintage years: Champagne, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1904. 1906. 1911, 1914, 1915, 191 9; Bordeaux, 1899, 1900, 1904, 1907, 1914, 1916, 1919; Burgundy and Cotes-du-Rhone, 1899, 1904, 1906, 1908, 19II, 1914, 1919. Noteworthy years in French wine production are always characterized by moderately cold winters, followed by bot, dry summers. According to the official statis:ics controlled by the department of t he Gironde, 1893, the record year of the nineteenth century, showed the following characteristics : winter, normal ; spring. warm and dry ; first leaves on the vines three weeks early ; blossoms by April .25th, finished one month later ; and a summer extremely hot and dry. The resulting vintage was nearly double the harvest.

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