Three Seasons in European Vineyards: Treating of Vineculture; Vine Disease and Its Cure; Wine-making and Wines, Red and White; Wine-drinking, as Affecting Health and MoralsHarper & brothers, 1869 - 332 páginas |
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... were mostly working vine - dressers , and being , as Frenchmen al- ways are , polite and communicative , I learned from them a good deal I had never heard before concern- ing the object of my inquiries , if one can BORDEAUX . 13.
... were mostly working vine - dressers , and being , as Frenchmen al- ways are , polite and communicative , I learned from them a good deal I had never heard before concern- ing the object of my inquiries , if one can BORDEAUX . 13.
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... never learn it . But a few clear lights will illuminate a good many facts , so that with patience and labor the rubbish can be known and rejected , and the useful brought into form and order . CHAPTER II SAINT GENES . THAT night I ...
... never learn it . But a few clear lights will illuminate a good many facts , so that with patience and labor the rubbish can be known and rejected , and the useful brought into form and order . CHAPTER II SAINT GENES . THAT night I ...
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... never a bit of trellis nor stake at all , nor peg to tie to , nor tree to hang upon , but where each individual plant , alone and self - sustaining , scorn- ing all support - its arms embracing nothing , its ten- drils twining nothing ...
... never a bit of trellis nor stake at all , nor peg to tie to , nor tree to hang upon , but where each individual plant , alone and self - sustaining , scorn- ing all support - its arms embracing nothing , its ten- drils twining nothing ...
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... never takes away your breath , nor whirls things out of sight before you see them . So nothing hin- dered my observing all we passed , on both sides of the track , leisurely enough to get an idea of the modes of training , and so forth ...
... never takes away your breath , nor whirls things out of sight before you see them . So nothing hin- dered my observing all we passed , on both sides of the track , leisurely enough to get an idea of the modes of training , and so forth ...
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... example , learned to love fog medicine - port , sherry , Madeira , whisky , and rum - which , in our dry climate , rend us as they never do a Briton in his home - but B this reminds me we are on the way to the COGNAC . 25.
... example , learned to love fog medicine - port , sherry , Madeira , whisky , and rum - which , in our dry climate , rend us as they never do a Briton in his home - but B this reminds me we are on the way to the COGNAC . 25.
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Página 145 - It will not do to put in another immediately the too warm cater might break the bottles. A portion of the heated water is taken out and replaced with cold, to reduce the temperature to a safe point, or, better still, the bottles of the second basket may be prepared by warming, so as to be put in as soon as the first comes' out The expansion of the wine during the heating process tends to force out the cork, but the twine or wire holds it in, and the wine finds a vent between the neck and the cork....
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