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WINES.
Definition
—
Various
Meanings
of
Wine
—
Alcohol
—
Varieties
oi
Wine
—
Miller
—
Professor
Mulder—
Origin
of
Wine
—
Brook
of
Eshcol
—
Strabo
and Reland
—
Francatelli's
Order
of
Wines
Classification
of
M.
Batalhai
Reis.
IN
the
matter
of
wine,
as
in
that
of
beer,
it
is
perhaps
as well
to
commence
with
a
dictionary
description or
definition.
Ogilvie
declares
it
to
be
the
"fermented
juice
of
the
grape,
or
fruit
of
the
vine."
It
is,
however,
also
the
juice
of
certain
fruits,
prepared
in
imitation
of
wine
obtained
from
grapes,
but
dis-
tinguished
by
naming
the
source
whence
it
is
derived,
as
currant
wine,
gooseberry
wine,
etc.
;
and
a
third
meaning
of
wine
—
a
meaning
with
which
we
have
happily
little
to
do^
—
is
the
effect
of
drinking
wine
in
excess,
or
intoxication.^
Wines
are
practically
distinguished
by
their
colour,
flavour,
stillness
or
effervescence,
and
what
is
kaowa
as
hardness
or
softness.
The
differences
in
quality
1
In
this
sense
it
is
apparently
used
in
Gen.
ix.
24
:
**
Noah
awoke
from
his
wine"