1934 Gordon's Cocktail & Food Recipes

Wines and Health ~INE, like music, eludes complete defi– ~ nition or description; and like music, its play upon the emotions covers a wide range of influence. · As jazz may cause a music-lover to wince with spiritual pain, so may coarse wine cause the epicure to shudder with shock. That old, mellow wine awakens dreams of inexpressible romance in sensitive people is common knowledge; why it does, no man has ever understood. Leibig claims to have discovered in certain wines a subtle substance which he named oenanthic ether. This substance in quantity is estimated to be only about one f arty-thousandth part of the total volume of the wine in which it ap– pears. This ether, alone or together with a volatile oil appearing in larger volume, may contain the answer to the dream-inducing re– action upon the drinker. All wines do not react much differently from other alcoholic beverages. The wines most noticeably produc– tive of this quality are Hermitage, Still Burgundy, Amontillado and Port. Man's chemical organization attracts or re– pels certain wines, hence no expert can with 30