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Page ix
... Wine - drinking in the Hebrides -Bad Cellars in Modern Houses -Wine Merchants ' Clerks - Tasting in the Open Air - ' Sinful ' Prices - Wine , like Horse - dealing - Drunkenness formerly not dis- graceful - Tavern Bill in 1728 ...
... Wine - drinking in the Hebrides -Bad Cellars in Modern Houses -Wine Merchants ' Clerks - Tasting in the Open Air - ' Sinful ' Prices - Wine , like Horse - dealing - Drunkenness formerly not dis- graceful - Tavern Bill in 1728 ...
Page xi
... Wine - Merchants Fermentation - Fining- Dinner at Château Lagrange - Château Margaux , 1834 - Hotel de Margaux - Price of Lafitte , 1858 and 1860 - Profits of the old English Houses - Dutch , German , and Belgians White Growths ...
... Wine - Merchants Fermentation - Fining- Dinner at Château Lagrange - Château Margaux , 1834 - Hotel de Margaux - Price of Lafitte , 1858 and 1860 - Profits of the old English Houses - Dutch , German , and Belgians White Growths ...
Page xiv
... Merchants - Huskisson- Poulett Thomson - South African - Fatal Day for Cape - Unfair Competition - Constantia - Colonial Interests overpower the Go- vernment - Indulgence granted to Cape - Frauds with Drawback claimed - Consumption and ...
... Merchants - Huskisson- Poulett Thomson - South African - Fatal Day for Cape - Unfair Competition - Constantia - Colonial Interests overpower the Go- vernment - Indulgence granted to Cape - Frauds with Drawback claimed - Consumption and ...
Page 1
... Wine Duties in 1822 - Manner of Paying - East Vault Exchange- Tasting - Dock Company's Responsibility - Wines in Bond - Wine ... Merchants ' Clerks - Tasting in the open Air - ' Sinful ' Prices - Wine like Horse- dealing - Drunkenness ...
... Wine Duties in 1822 - Manner of Paying - East Vault Exchange- Tasting - Dock Company's Responsibility - Wines in Bond - Wine ... Merchants ' Clerks - Tasting in the open Air - ' Sinful ' Prices - Wine like Horse- dealing - Drunkenness ...
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... wine , but when he receives his cask it seems a mass of lees ; and it is little wonder that the exclamation is often made , What stuff this French wine is ! ' 6 There is another evil . Merchants and retailers are equally ignorant of the ...
... wine , but when he receives his cask it seems a mass of lees ; and it is little wonder that the exclamation is often made , What stuff this French wine is ! ' 6 There is another evil . Merchants and retailers are equally ignorant of the ...
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