But Catawba wine has a taste more divine,
More dulcet, delicious, and dreamy.”
A dreamy taste is something startling even in poetical description.
[22] Chili has lately taken Paris medals for its wines; it also produces a light and wholesome beer.
[23] The rébêche is principally sold to people manufacturing cheap Champagnes; by mixing with other wines of very light complexion, they give them body, and make a stuff which can be produced at a very low price.
[24] De Proprietatibus Rerum. Argent. 1485, lib. xix. cap. 56.
[25] Blount’s Fragmenta Antiquitatis. Sec. “Grand Serjeantry,” No. IV.
[26] The Wines of the World, Characterized and Classed, 1875, pp. 16, 17.
[27] This wine is said to profit much by a quiescent state of the air afforded by the town wall.
[28] A wine at Homburg, called Erlacher, at about one mark a bottle, is, says Dr. Charnock, frequently superior to the ordinary Niersteiner.