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... Tasting - Pommard -Beaune - Meursault - Montrachet - Chablis - Mâcon - Beaujolais -Sparkling Burgundy - Lyons - Tain - Tournon - Hermitage -- The Rhône - Memorandum of Tasting 338 CHAPTER IX . SOUTH OF FRANCE - MARSEILLES , ETC.
... Tasting - Pommard -Beaune - Meursault - Montrachet - Chablis - Mâcon - Beaujolais -Sparkling Burgundy - Lyons - Tain - Tournon - Hermitage -- The Rhône - Memorandum of Tasting 338 CHAPTER IX . SOUTH OF FRANCE - MARSEILLES , ETC.
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Thomas George Shaw. CHAPTER IX . SOUTH OF FRANCE - MARSEILLES , ETC. Marseilles - St . George - M . Gordon - Languedoc - Châteauneuf du Pape - Nismes - Banyuls - Letter from Montpellier , 1805 - List of Prices - Cette - Undeserved bad ...
Thomas George Shaw. CHAPTER IX . SOUTH OF FRANCE - MARSEILLES , ETC. Marseilles - St . George - M . Gordon - Languedoc - Châteauneuf du Pape - Nismes - Banyuls - Letter from Montpellier , 1805 - List of Prices - Cette - Undeserved bad ...
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... France there are 6,000 , 8,000 , and 10,000 hogs- heads requiring daily supervision ; but , even in the bonded cellars at Bercy , near Paris , every merchant has entire control of his stock , and employs his own men , in the management ...
... France there are 6,000 , 8,000 , and 10,000 hogs- heads requiring daily supervision ; but , even in the bonded cellars at Bercy , near Paris , every merchant has entire control of his stock , and employs his own men , in the management ...
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... France , & c . , have been nursed and ma- tured and strengthened before being brought over . This cannot continue ; for Frenchmen and others will establish themselves here , buying growths by the tun , as the Belgians , Dutch , and ...
... France , & c . , have been nursed and ma- tured and strengthened before being brought over . This cannot continue ; for Frenchmen and others will establish themselves here , buying growths by the tun , as the Belgians , Dutch , and ...
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... France and Spain , as also out of Almaine and out of Candia , great quantity of the best that grow in those parts . ' In Scotland it was often so abundant that , upon the arrival of ships at Leith from Bordeaux , casks were placed on ...
... France and Spain , as also out of Almaine and out of Candia , great quantity of the best that grow in those parts . ' In Scotland it was often so abundant that , upon the arrival of ships at Leith from Bordeaux , casks were placed on ...
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