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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... seen , and attention soon tired of the look - out at the window of the coupé , so I looked in . Two nuns were with me - not handsome , of course , for in France beauty is too precious a commodity to shut up in convents - but very jolly ...
... seen , and attention soon tired of the look - out at the window of the coupé , so I looked in . Two nuns were with me - not handsome , of course , for in France beauty is too precious a commodity to shut up in convents - but very jolly ...
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... seen vintage dances before this , at the thea- tre , but there was always a row of brilliant foot- lights , and a large orchestra , and the dancers wore blue and red bodices , with clean chemises , and broad straw hats adorned with gay ...
... seen vintage dances before this , at the thea- tre , but there was always a row of brilliant foot- lights , and a large orchestra , and the dancers wore blue and red bodices , with clean chemises , and broad straw hats adorned with gay ...
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... seen in the stable- yard at Pauillac . One of the wooden shoes , flung from a maiden's foot as she whirled by in a waltz , struck my knee with centrifugal force . As the Cin- derella who owned it kept on with her dancing , I had time to ...
... seen in the stable- yard at Pauillac . One of the wooden shoes , flung from a maiden's foot as she whirled by in a waltz , struck my knee with centrifugal force . As the Cin- derella who owned it kept on with her dancing , I had time to ...
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... seen in use , and makes quality num- ber four . Formerly numbers three and four were put together . Number two is made from fruit grown on inferior soils or exposures , or that is , from any cause , imper- fectly ripened . Grapes from ...
... seen in use , and makes quality num- ber four . Formerly numbers three and four were put together . Number two is made from fruit grown on inferior soils or exposures , or that is , from any cause , imper- fectly ripened . Grapes from ...
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... seen since morning vats wholly uncovered , vats covered with closely - sealed boards , others with loose boards , and others still with only a float of grape- stems . When such diversity of practice is found among skillful and practiced ...
... seen since morning vats wholly uncovered , vats covered with closely - sealed boards , others with loose boards , and others still with only a float of grape- stems . When such diversity of practice is found among skillful and practiced ...
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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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