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... Vineyards - The Press - White and Red Wines - Palatinate - Racking - Prices - Rüdesheim , Johannisberg , & c . - Schloss Johannisberg - Cabinet Wines - Steinberg - Rüdes- heimer Geisenheimer Rothenberg - Hochheimer — Assmanns- hausen ...
... Vineyards - The Press - White and Red Wines - Palatinate - Racking - Prices - Rüdesheim , Johannisberg , & c . - Schloss Johannisberg - Cabinet Wines - Steinberg - Rüdes- heimer Geisenheimer Rothenberg - Hochheimer — Assmanns- hausen ...
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... Vineyards - Massandra- Aïdanil - Aloupka- Fine , pure Wines - Memorandum of Tasting . CHAPTER XVII . MADEIRA . 436 Madeira Thirty Years ago - Now greatly Changed - Importation Trifling - Replaced by Sherry - Imitations from all Quarters ...
... Vineyards - Massandra- Aïdanil - Aloupka- Fine , pure Wines - Memorandum of Tasting . CHAPTER XVII . MADEIRA . 436 Madeira Thirty Years ago - Now greatly Changed - Importation Trifling - Replaced by Sherry - Imitations from all Quarters ...
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... Vineyards at Beechworth and Albury - Newspaper Extracts 457 CHAPTER XXI . AMERICA - CALIFORNIA . Longfellow's Song in praise of Catawba - Different Opinion - Hotel Charges before the time of Greenbacks - Cock - tail - Brandy Smash ...
... Vineyards at Beechworth and Albury - Newspaper Extracts 457 CHAPTER XXI . AMERICA - CALIFORNIA . Longfellow's Song in praise of Catawba - Different Opinion - Hotel Charges before the time of Greenbacks - Cock - tail - Brandy Smash ...
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... vineyards and of wine - making as will be commu- nicated to him . Without this , he must remain very ignorant , and has to take for granted what is told him by the old firms whose trade is with England , or by their travellers . ' He ...
... vineyards and of wine - making as will be commu- nicated to him . Without this , he must remain very ignorant , and has to take for granted what is told him by the old firms whose trade is with England , or by their travellers . ' He ...
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... vineyards and in cellars , joined to such an amount of industry , skill , and patience as we have reason to believe was not usual in olden times . Every country was also overrun by wars ; and there was but little security , without ...
... vineyards and in cellars , joined to such an amount of industry , skill , and patience as we have reason to believe was not usual in olden times . Every country was also overrun by wars ; and there was but little security , without ...
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