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... - Articles required in the Cellar - How to carry a Bottle - Fining - Corks - Bottling - Best to employ a Wine - cooper - Bottles - Uniform Size impracticable . 477 CONTENTS . XV CHAPTER XXIV . GOUT . No Personal xiv CONTENTS .
... - Articles required in the Cellar - How to carry a Bottle - Fining - Corks - Bottling - Best to employ a Wine - cooper - Bottles - Uniform Size impracticable . 477 CONTENTS . XV CHAPTER XXIV . GOUT . No Personal xiv CONTENTS .
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... corks are stained for the same object and even the very cobwebs which envelope the bottles are often borrowed . I believe that if a hundred wine merchants were called upon to state their opinion whether there was any truth in these and ...
... corks are stained for the same object and even the very cobwebs which envelope the bottles are often borrowed . I believe that if a hundred wine merchants were called upon to state their opinion whether there was any truth in these and ...
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... corks , & c . , and then paying dock companies to do what would be more satisfactorily done in his own cellar . If there were only the rate of 1s . per gallon , merchants would willingly lose the 2s . per dozen on wine from their own ...
... corks , & c . , and then paying dock companies to do what would be more satisfactorily done in his own cellar . If there were only the rate of 1s . per gallon , merchants would willingly lose the 2s . per dozen on wine from their own ...
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... cork on the top of it , and then you will keep in all the good . ' 6 Many had substantial grounds for regretting having followed such ignorant counsel ; because , on drawing the corks four or five years afterwards , they found plenty of ...
... cork on the top of it , and then you will keep in all the good . ' 6 Many had substantial grounds for regretting having followed such ignorant counsel ; because , on drawing the corks four or five years afterwards , they found plenty of ...
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... cork , without being deteriorated in bouquet . I know this is a most heterodox opinion about old port , but I have often seen proofs of its correctness ; and it is a well - known fact that almost every third cork , containing very old ...
... cork , without being deteriorated in bouquet . I know this is a most heterodox opinion about old port , but I have often seen proofs of its correctness ; and it is a well - known fact that almost every third cork , containing very old ...
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