WINES. PLACE. CHARACTER.
Romanée Conti Côte-d'Or. The first and most delicate
red wines in the
world, full of rich perfume,
of exquisite bouquet
and fine purple colour,
light, yet with body
and spirit sufficient to
render them pleasant and
healthful in use.
ChamberlinDitto.
RichebourgDitto.
Clos VougeotDitto.
Romanée St.-VivantDitto.
La TacheDitto.
St.-GeorgesDitto.
CortonDitto.
First growths of Prémaux Ditto. Burgundies, closely
resembling the above
growths in aroma, and
in all their other qualities.
MusignyDitto.
Clos du Tart.Ditto.
Saint-JeanDitto.
PerrièreDitto.
VeroillesDitto.
MorgeotDitto.
Mont Rachet Ditto. White, high perfume
and nutty flavor.
Lafitte Gironde. Fine colour and delicate
flavour, light, less
warm than Burgundy,
with a violet perfume,
and rich purple hue.
LatourDitto.
Château MargauxDitto.
Haut BrionDitto.
Beaume La Drôme. Wines of the Rhône,
darker in colour than the
preceding. Red Hermitage
the most noted of these
of good body, and a fine
flavour of the rasberry.
MuretDitto.
Bessas, Burges, LandesDitto.
Méal and GréfieuxDitto.
Racoule, GuionièreDitto.
Sillery Marne. White, still, dry; of an
amber colour; generally
iced for drinking.
Ay. Marne. Fine effervescing wine,
bright in colour, slightly
frothing.
Mareuil Ditto. The best of the white
wines of Champagne,
being all of the first
quality, but differing a
little in colour and
effervescence.
HautvilliersDitto.
PierryDitto.
DizyDitto.
Epernay «Closet»Ditto.
Saint-Bris Gironde. Fine white wines of
excellent quality, lightish
brown in colour, aroma
most agreeable, and
some of rather sweet taste.
CarbonnieuxDitto.
PontacDitto.
SauterneDitto.
BarsacDitto.
Preignac and Beaumes Ditto. Description resembles
the preceding.
Château GrilletLa Loire.
Hermitage Rhône. Full of body, spirit,
and perfume. The finest
of all white wines.
Rivesaltes Pyrénées
orientales.		 A rich muscadine.
Colmar, Olwiller
Kaiserberg		 Haut-Rhin. Straw wines, rich and
luscious.
Kientzheim, Ammerschwin Ditto. Ditto.
Hermitage de Paille Rhône. Ditto.

The dry wines of the first class will bear no mixture, except with their own growths; are too delicate to be adulterated without instant detection; are the pure offspring of the grape, and rank nearest to perfection of any known wines, of ancient or modern times.

WINES OF THE SECOND CLASS.

WINES. PLACE. CHARACTER.

Verzy, Verzenay, Mailly,
St.-Basle, Bouzy,
St.-Thierry

 Marne. Red wines of Champagne.

Vosne, Nuits, Chambolle,
Volnay, Pomard,
Beaune, Morey, Savigny,
Meursalt

 Côte-d'Or. Excellent red Burgundies,
very little inferior
to first growths.

Olivotes, Pitoy, Perrière

 Yonne Good wines.

Préaux, Chainette,
Migrenne

 Ditto.

Moulin à Vent, Torins,
Thénas

 Saône-et-Loire
Rhône.		 Red.

Hermitage, 2.d growths.

 Rhône. Red.

Côte Rôtie

Ditto. Red.

Rozan, Gorze, Léoville,
Larose, Branne-Mouton,
Pichon-Longueville,
Calon

 Gironde. Red.

Côteau Brûlé

 Vaucluse. Red.

Jurançon, Gan

Basses-Pyrénées. Red.

Rousillon, Bagnols,
Cosperon, Collioure,
Torémila, Terrats

 Pyrénées orientales. Red.

Cramant, Avize, Oger,
Menil

 Marne. White champagne wines,
of good quality.

La Perrière, Combotte,
Goutte d'Or, Genevrière,
Charmes et Meursalt

 Côte-d'Or. White Burgundies, of
high repute in France.

Guebwillers, Turkeim,
Wolxheim, Molsheim,
and Rangen, in Belfont

 Haut-Rhin.
Bas-Rhin.		 Dry, white, and vins de
paille, of good repute.

Arbois, Pupillin,Château Châlons

 Jura. Good wine, mousseux
and still.

Coudrieu

 Rhône. A white wine, which keeps
long, of fine sève
and perfume.

Langon, Cerons,
Podensac.

 Gironde. White wines capable of
endurance.

Montbazillac, Teaulet,
Raulis, Suma, Sancé.

 Dordogne. Good white wines of
the country.

Buzet, Amazon, Vianne.

 Lot-et-Garonne. Generous white wines,
of good body.

St.-Peray, St.-Jean

 Ardèche. Delicate mousseux and
non mousseux, of agreeable
flavour.

Jurançon

 Basses-Pyrénées. White, with an agreeable
perfume of the truffle.

Frontignan, and Lunel Mazet

 Hérault. Sweet, rich, and luscious;
white.

Bagnols, Collioure,
Rodez

 Pyrénées Orientales. Red, styled de Grenache,
rich and sweet.

Maccabeo of Salces

 Ditto. Sweet, vins de liqueur.

WINES OF THE THIRD CLASS.

WINES. PLACE. CHARACTER.

Hautvilliers, Mareuil,
Dizy, Pierry, Epernay,
Taisy, Ludes, Chigny,
Villers-Allerand,
Cumières

 Marne. Red Champagne wines
of the second quality;
light and agreeable.

Ricey, Avirey, Bagneux
la Fosse

 Aube. Resembling the preceding.

Gevrey, Chassagne,
Aloxe, Savigny sous
Beaune, Blagny, Santenay,
Chenôve

 Côte-d'Or. Good Burgundies of the
third quality.

Clarion, Bonvin

 Yonne. Ditto.

Fleury, Romanèche,
Chapelle, Guinchay

 Saône-et-Loire Ditto.

Chantergues, Montjuset.

 Puy-de-Dôme. Not wines of note; red.

Crozes, Mercurol,
Gervant

 Drôme. Resembling red Hermitage,
a little less full
and fine, might be called
Hermitage of the third
quality.

Seyssuel, Revantin

 Isère. Red wines, very middling
of the class.
Verinay Rhône. Resembling Côte Rôtie.

Pouillac, Margaux,
Pessac, St.-Estèphe,
St.-Julien, Castelnau de
Médoc, Cantenac, Talence,
Merignac, Canon

 Gironde. Pouillac, Saint-Estèphe,good light red wines;
Castelnau mediocre; the
other growths agreeable.

Farcies, Terrasse,
Campreal

 Dordogne. Resembling St-Emilion; keeping well.

Cape Breton, Soustons

 Landes. Red; light coloured,
with a harsh taste.

Chuzelan, Travel,
St.-Genies, Virac,
Ledenon,
St.-Laurent-des-Arbres

 Gard. Red wines grown on
the banks of the Rhône;
will not keep good more
than six years.

Chateauneuf

 Vaucluse. Good red wines; keep
well.

Riceys

 Aube. Champagne, light and
agreeable, white.

Rougeot de Meursalt

 Côte-d'Or. Tolerable wine; not
exported.

Vaumorillon, Grises,
Valmure, Grenouille,
Vaudesir, Bourgereau,
Mont de Milieu et
Chablis

 Yonne. In considerable esteem
in Paris as wines of the
table.
They are all white.

Pouilly and Fuissé

 Saône-et-Loire Much the same as the
preceding.

Etoile Quintignil

 Jura. White.

Pujols, Ilats, Landiras,
Virelade, St.-Croix du
Mont, Loupiac

 Gironde. Ditto, of middling quality.

St.-Michel sous Condrieu

 Loire. Ditto; consumed in the
country.

Frontignan and Lunel

 Hérault. Second growths of those
famous and rich white
wines.

Vins de Picardan of
Marseillan and Pommerols.
Vins de Calabria, de
Malaga

 Hérault. Rich luscious sweet
wines, prepared in the
department of Hérault;
and very little exported,
also muscadines.

Roquevaire, Cassis,
Ciotât
Vins Cuits

 Bouches-du-Rhône. Rich sweet wines, boiled
wines, and malmseys,
of good quality.

The above are the three first classes of French wines, including all which are commonly exported; there are, according to the best authorities, six classes of red, seven of white, and four of vins de liqueur. In these (exclusive of the list above comprising the choicest kinds), there are two hundred and forty-three white, nine vins de liqueur, and four hundred and sixty-three red wines classed, commencing with the fourth. The wines of Champagne descend six degrees in class and quality, hence the importance of ascertaining the proper class by those who purchase them.

Alcoholic strength of Wines and Liquors; according to
the analysis of professor Brande.

PURE ALCOHOL
PER CENT.
Burgundy, average of four samples14·57
Ditto, lowest of the four11·95
Ditto, highest of ditto16·60
Champagne, four samples; average12·61
Ditto, still13·80
Ditto, mousseux12·80
Côte Rôtie12·32
Frontignan12·79
Red Hermitage12·32
Sauterne14·22
Lunel15·52
White Hermitage17·43
Vin de Grave13·94
Ditto, second sample12·80
Barsac13·86
Rousillon19·00
Ditto, second sample17·26
Claret [E]17·11
Ditto16·32
Ditto14·08
Ditto12·91
Average15·10
Grenache21·24
Malaga, 166618·94
Ditto17·26
Sherry; average of four kinds19·17
Teneriffe19·79
Vidonia19·25
Alba Flora17·26
Tent13·20
Hockheimer14·37
Hock13·00
Ditto, old 8·88
Colares Port19·75
Port; average of seven specimens22·96
Lisbon18·94
Carcavellos19·20
Ditto18·10
Bucellas18·49
Madeira Malmsey16·40
Madeira Malmsey, red22·30
Ditto18·40
Madeira24·42
Ditto23·93
Sercial21·40
Ditto19·41
Average22·27
Marsala; average of two specimens25·09
Lacryma Christi19·70
Lissa26·47
Ditto24·35
Syracuse15·28
Etna30·00
Aleatico16·20
Constantia, white19·75
Ditto, red18·92
Cape muscat18·25
Ditto Madeira22·94
Average of three samples20·51
Shiraz, white19·80
Ditto, red15·52
Tokay 9·88
Nice14·63
Raisin wine26·40
Average of three specimens25·12
Currant Wine20·55
Gooseberry11·84
Orange; average of six samples11·26
Elder wine 9·87
Scotch Whiskey54·32
Irish ditto53·90
Rum53·68
Brandy53·39
Gin51·60
Cider, 9.87 and 5.21 average7·84
Perry; four samples 7·26
Mead 7·32
Burton Ale 8·88
Edinburgh 6·20
Dorchester 5·56
London Porter 4·20
Brown Stout 6·80
London small Beer 1·28