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o
n
German
Wines
BY
PHILIP
HOLLENBACH
Près.
Phil.
Hollenbach
Co.
Louisville,
Ky.
To
know
kow
to
drink
wine
belongs
only
to
a
cultivated
taste;
to
know
kow
to
tempt
guests
to
in-
dulge
in
it
witk
i^leasure
belongs
only
to
tke
kost
gifted
witk
rare
tact
and
artistic
discrimination.
A
painting
from
tke
kand
of
a
master
must
be
placed
in
a
favorable
ligkt
and
witk
appropriate
sur-
ronndings
to
set
off:
its
excellence;
tke
most
beautifnl
woman
despises
not
tke
act
of
enkancing
ker
ckarms
by
karmonious
auxiliaries
or
by
jndicious
contrasts.
Since
time
immémorial
tke
poets
of
ail
nations
kave
been
inspired
to
sing
tke
famé
of
German
wine.
Tke
old
bards
knew
full
well
tke
delicious
bringer
of
heaventy
bliss
to
tke
poor
eartk-ckained
being
known
as
tke
species
"komo
sapiens."
One
of
onr
greatest
poets,
Henry
Wadswortk
Longfellow,
sings
of
tke
vintage
of
1811,
wkick
ke
fomid
in
a
convent
cellar,
tkns
:
"And
wkenever
a
goblet
tkereof
I
drain,
Tke
old
rkyme
keeps
running
in
my
brain
:
At
Backarack
on
tke
Ekine,
At
Hockkeim
on
tke
Main,
And
at
Wnrzburg
on
tke
Stein,
Grow
tke
tkree
best
kinds
of
wine."
Matkias
Clandius,
tke
renowned
German
poet,
says
:
"The
Ekine,
tke
Ekine
—
tkere
grow
tke
gay
plantations!
O
kallowed
be
tke
Ekine!
Upon
kis
banks
are
brewed
tke
rick
potations
Of
tkis
consoling wine."
Tke
Eivers
Ekine,
Moselle,
Neckar,
Akr,
Main,
Nake,
are
bordered
witk
vineyards,
wkence
tke
golden
jnice
of
tke
grapes
cornes
to
enjoy
tke
keart
of
man.
Pure
wine
is
a
tonic
—
natnre's
tonic.
Its
low
percentage
of
alcokol
renders
it
at
once
tke
most
expédient
and
tke
most
wkolesome
drink
tkat
can
be
used.
It
is
a
gift
of
Nature
—
tke
Great
Creator.
But,
alas!
not
every
year
tkat
rolls
by
does
bring
us
tkis
delicious
fluid.
Tke
quality,
as
well
as
quantity,
of
wine
differs
to
a
great