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Germany
:
Rhine
Wines—
Heidelberg
Tun—
Hock—
Stelnwein
Asmannhaiiser
—
Straw
Wines
—
Goethe's
Opinion
of
Wine.
Greece
:
Verdea
—
Vino
Santo
—
The
Wine
of
Night.
Hungary
:
Maszlacz
—
Tokay
—
Carlowitz
—
Erlauer.
Italy
:
Monte
Pulciano
—
Chianti
—
Barolo
—
Barbera
—
Montefiascone
—
Lachryma
Christi,
etc.
Madeira
:
Malvasia
—
Tinta
—
Bual,
etc.
Persia
:
Shiraz.
Germany.
The
Germans,
says
Cyrus
Redding,
like
vain
men
of
other
nations,
have
wasted
a
good
deal
of
idle
con-
jecture
on
the
antiquity
of
the
culture
of
the
vine
in
their
country;
and
then,
as
though
to
show
by
example
that
this
waste
of
idle
conjecture
is
not
confined
to
the
Germans,
Mr.
Redding
continues
the
investiga-
tion
of
this
important
matter
himself.
In
the
opinion
of
an
experienced
merchant
these
wines
have
a
"
dis-
tinct
character
and
classification
of
their
own."
Their
alcoholic
strength
is
low,
averaging
about
i8
per
cent.
To
the
north
of
Coblent?
the
wines
are
of
little
comparative
value,
though
a
Rhenish
wine
has
been
produced
at
Bodendorf,
near
Bonn.
On
the
Rhine
or
its
tributary
rivers
between
Coblentz
and
Mayence,
all
the
most
celebrated
wines
of
Germany
are
grown.
The
grapes
preferred
for
general
cultivation
are the
Riessling,
a
small,
white,
harsh
species.
The
true
Hochheimer,
daily
consumed
in
Germany,
is
grown
to
the
eastward
of
Mentz,
between
there
and
Frankfort.
The
wines
mellow
best
in
large
vessels,
an
experience
which
has
produced
the
celebrated
Heidelberg
Tun,
holding
some
six
hundred
hogsheads.
The
dis-
tinguishing
characteristics
of
German
wine
have
been