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Anglo-Saxons, wine drunk by the, Barcelona, 242

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climate and soil not adapted for
growing wine, 457

vines sent in 1835 to Adelaide,
457

- better apply her labour and capi-
tal to her natural productions,
458

- vineyards at Beechworth and
Albury, from the 'Times,' 458
- interesting and instructive in-
formation respecting the wines
of Australia, from a Sidney
newspaper, 459

operation of Customs duty on
Australian wines, 465

Auxerre, wine of, 339
Avignon, wines of, 356, 361
Azote, gout produced by too much,
497

BACCHUS, the god of wine, 423

his victories over mankind,

424
Bacon, Lord, on the use of wine,

121

Ballantyne, Mr., his letter on wine
drunk a hundred years ago,
quoted, 37, 503

his account of the introduction
of the first-growth claret, pro-
perly prepared, &c., into Eng-
land, 277

his letter of 1807 in extenso, 433
Banyuls, wines of the, 356

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'custom-house to be burned,'

242

outbreak in the town, 242

- trade of Barcelona, 244
Barro soil of Sicily, 404
Barrocas-Piedade, wine of, 197
Barros grounds, manzanilla wine
grown on the, 224

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Bavaria, Rhenish, mode of treat-
ment of the wine of, 386
- prices in, 387

- quantity, various kinds, and
quality of these wines, 392
Beaune, advantages of, over claret,
260

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drunk in Scotland about 1450,

275

characteristics of this wine, 3.9
Beaujolais, wine of, 350

-- advantages of, over claret, 260
all common cheap red wines in
France, now called 'Beaujolais,'
351
Beechworth, in New South Wales,
wine grown at, 458

Beer, quantity drunk in Paris in
1861, 377

Behic, M., Minister of Agriculture,

his letter to the Dijon Chamber
of Commerce, on the size of
bottles, 493

Belem, fort of, 194

Belgian houses, their dealings in
Bordeaux wines, 258

Bell, the late Archibald, his lines on
'Hotch-potch' quoted, 500
Bercy, cellars at, 12, 277

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expenses of rent and octroi dues
at, 371

mode of transacting business at,
371

- visit to one of the cellars, 372
- 'watering' wines, 373

- racking and fining, 374
Bilhetes, or certificates of goodness,
of port wine, 126

- trade in bilhetes, 126

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cellars at Nuits, 339

the extensive cellars at Bercy, 371
no underground cellars in Greece,
427

proper arrangement of a cellar,
478

iron and moveable bins, 478
cases and bins combined, 481

- ignorance of architects about
cellars, 482

temperature of cellars, 482

practice of icing wines, 482
description of the requisites of a
good wine cellar, 482

Cement, imitated wines of, 359
- casks, marks, and brands at,
like those of other countries, 360
- great wine stores at, for expor-
tation, 360

wines grown in the cellars of, 406
Cement for champagne corks, 321
Cérons, wines of the parish of, 262
Cette, imitated wines of, 359
Chablis, wine of, 339, 350

most kinds of white French
wines sold under the name of,
Chablis, 350

CHA

519

Chalk mixed with Greek wines, 424
Chalons, Mayor of, his champagne,

324

Chambertin, celebrated vineyard of,

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341

- annual average produce of wine,

341

character of the wine, 341
Champagne, use of, forbidden to his
army by Henry V., 289

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Cazanove's verses on, 306
district in which it is grown,
and character of the soil and
subsoil, 307

crayons and gouttes d'or, 308
- mode of making champagne, 309
— 'goût de taille,' 309

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former perverted tastes in Eng-
land, 309

storing champagne, 310

the blending, 310

- proportions of cuvées made in
the years 1857 and 1858, 311
- fining, 312

- period of the vintage, 312

quantity of grapes required to
produce a hogshead of wine, 312
- bottling, 313

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