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... Strong Wine wanted - Unsaleable if imported Light - Remarks about Gauges --Wine production of Sicily - Shipments to Cette and Marseilles- Consumption and Percentage from 1831 to 1863 403 CONTENTS . CHAPTER XIII . ITALY . xiii Its Wines ...
... Strong Wine wanted - Unsaleable if imported Light - Remarks about Gauges --Wine production of Sicily - Shipments to Cette and Marseilles- Consumption and Percentage from 1831 to 1863 403 CONTENTS . CHAPTER XIII . ITALY . xiii Its Wines ...
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... strong as port and sherry , while such regulations exist . I am not aware that they have yet foreign cellar- men at any of the large docks , but there are Frenchmen and Germans at several of the other bonded vaults . It seems to be a ...
... strong as port and sherry , while such regulations exist . I am not aware that they have yet foreign cellar- men at any of the large docks , but there are Frenchmen and Germans at several of the other bonded vaults . It seems to be a ...
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... strong as it was . It will be in the recollection of many , that the head of a very old and first - rate house ( Charles Dixon ) made up his mind , about thirty- five years ago , to realise his property , and to retire from the trade ...
... strong as it was . It will be in the recollection of many , that the head of a very old and first - rate house ( Charles Dixon ) made up his mind , about thirty- five years ago , to realise his property , and to retire from the trade ...
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... strong tendency to produce a disruption of intimacy and friendship . On the part of the buyer there is often the feeling that he would have pre- ferred dealing with some one else against whom he could freely and openly grumble , both ...
... strong tendency to produce a disruption of intimacy and friendship . On the part of the buyer there is often the feeling that he would have pre- ferred dealing with some one else against whom he could freely and openly grumble , both ...
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... strong kinds , which bear almost any temperature and treatment ; for even claret and other kinds from France , & c . , have been nursed and ma- tured and strengthened before being brought over . This cannot continue ; for Frenchmen and ...
... strong kinds , which bear almost any temperature and treatment ; for even claret and other kinds from France , & c . , have been nursed and ma- tured and strengthened before being brought over . This cannot continue ; for Frenchmen and ...
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