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and Moselles which are made both still and sparkling.
"Hock," it will be remembered,is the contracted col
loquial for Hochheim. Wherever we find representa
tives of that sociable, thrifty and robust people, the
Germans;—and where do we not?—there are we sure to
find the wines of the Fatherland. The principal wine-
yielding districts of Germany are Alsace-Lorraine,
Laden, Wurtemberg,the Hessian and Bavarian Pala
tinates and the Rheingau,the total annual output of
which approaches close to 100,000,000 gallons. The
white wines best known are Hochheim, Radesheim,
Johannisberg, Forst, Hiersteiner, Marcobrunner, etc.,
and the reds most familiar are the Affenthaler and
Assmannshausen. The high-flavored dry Rhenish wines
are produced in thie territory from Coblence to Alsace,
in the valley of the Rhine and its tributaries, the best
being grown in the neighborhood of Mainz. The
Rheingau,in which the choicest discriptions are grown,
lies on the right bank of the river, while the vineyards
of Hesse are on the left. The wines produced on the
left bank are full-bodied and with good flavor,the best
growths being Liebfraumilch,Hiesstein,Scharlarchberg
and Forst which are considered nearly equal to the
Rheingau wines, among which latter are the wines of
Johannisberg and Steinberg. The vineyard of Johan-