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WINES
AND
SPIRITS.
INTRODUCTION.
The
origin
of
wine
is
of
such
ancient
date
that
no
one
seems
to
be
able
to
put
a
date
to
it.
In
fabu-
lous
history
we
know
that
Bacchus,
the
rosy
god
of
wine,
is
said
to
have
planted
the
first
vineyards.
We
find
vineyards
in
Egypt,
Greece,
and
Italy.
At
a
very
early
date
in
the
Bible
we
read
of
wine
and
drunkenness
in
the
Book
of
Genesis,
for
it
says,
*
Noah
began
to
be
a
husbandman
and
he
planted
a
vineyard
and
he
drank
of
the
wine
and
was
drunken.'
In
Italy
we
find
it
existed
in
the
time
of
Romulus
(717
B.C.).
In
818
we
find
the
plant
in
the
South
of
France,
and
in
the
sixth
century,
so
says
Mr.
Denman,
who
seems
to
have
gone
very
deeply
into
the
subject
of
wine,
it
was
acclimatised
in
Bretagne,
Normandy,
and
Picardy
;
in
the
middle
ages
in
Alsace
and
Lorraine
and
the
North
of
Germany.
Manufacture
of
Wine.
Clarets
are
manufactured
by
picking
the
grapes
after
they
are
gathered
;
all
that
are
likely
to
in-
jure
the
quality
of
the
wine
being
carefully
re-