Wines, Champagne and Doctoring
Nature of Acidity in Wine
alcohol, 3 oz. essence noyau, gal. cinnamon water (see "Recipe No. 16"), 4 gal. clove water (see Recipe No. 15"), 1 oz. mace, infused in 1…
The Use of Glycerine in Wine
This consists in the addition of a small quantity of tannin or tannic acid to the wine, which perhaps acts in a similar way, by destroying…
Ing Different Kinds of Wines
IN making good imitations of different kinds of wines, it is very important to have a thorough knowledge of the various flavors or bouquets…
How Wines Are Doctored
Amontillado, is frequently added to Sherries deficient in flavor. A poor Sherry is also much improved by the addition of honey and a little…
Orris Root
employment of aromatics in attempting to imitate genuine wines. We will now proceed to describe the partic ular flavors recommended in our…
Coloring for Wines
Notwithstanding the length of time that rhubarb ha been in use, it has not yet been determined from what precise plant the Asiatic drug is…
Coloring for Wines (Substances we use)
THE substances we use and recommend for coloring wine are all perfectly wholesome and innocuous, therefore they may be safely relied upon…
Mallow or Malva Flowers
healthy ever In coloring wine, care should be taken to imitate as closely as possible the natural tint of the genuine article…
Pokeberries and Elderberries
This is a fine Port wine coloring, as well as bouquet. and may be prepared from either fresh or dried berries, but the former are the best…
Turmeric
To prepare cherry juice for coloring and flavoring Port wine see "Recipes" Nos. 12 and 13. This peculiar coloring matter is derived from…
Red Saunders
Spanish saffron is generally considered the best va riety, but the high price of this coloring matter gives rise to frequent adulterations…
Red Beet Roots
Brazil, Pernambuco, and Logwood Are not considered very good for coloring wine, as the color of each is liable to be precipitated by any…
How to Fine and Preserve Wine
THE following recipes for the treatment and fining of wine we feel confident will prove generally useful to the merchant and manufacturer…
To Fine Port Wine
To fine Madeira or any kind of Wine with Isinglass. To fine 40 gallons wine, steep 1 ounce isinglass in 1 pint of pure cold water over…
To Remedy Sour Wine
it up well, leaving out the bung one day; then bung it up, and in ten days it will be fit to bottle. If the weather be warm, mix up one…
To Restore Sour Wine with Potash
3 weeks, and then immediately bottled, and consumed as soon as possible, for it will never prove a good keeping wine. To restore Pricked or…
To Improve Claret Wine
or two of yeast, or a few bruised vine leaves are also mixed in, the cask being placed in a moderately warm situation until the new…
To Stop a Fermentation
To Mix Water with Catalonia Wine. Twelve or fifteen gallons of water may be added to 60 gallons of good Catalonia wine, providing you also…
To Remedy Ropiness in Wine
of mustard seed or sulphate of lime. One ounce of brimstone or one pound bruised mustard-seed, and about four to eight ounces of sulphate…
How to Ripen Wine
nin. He recommended the use of one pound of the bruised berries of the mountain ash in a somewhat unripe state, well stirred in each barrel…
To Remove Acidity in Wine
begin shortly to deposit, and improve in flavor; and even the rawest wine of this kind, by placing the bottle in water, and boiling it, may…
Tests to Detect Adulterated Wine (Abstract the tartaric)
to abstract the tartaric and acetic acid. A precipitate is formed in the first instance, which carries down a larger or smaller portion of…
Tests to Detect Adulterated Wine (Beet root Pokeweed berries)
Beet root Pokeweed berries Indian wood Pernambuco Litmus • Orchil or Cudbear • violet, yellow, violet red, violet blue, dirty lees color…
How to Rack Wine
If any wine gives these creatives the presence of lead is conclusively proved. In racking wine intended to be bottled, the first object is…
Port Wine Filter
from the operation of racking; that is altogether a mistaken notion. Whenever there is a necessity for racking wines, their pleasantness of…
Fig. 2
cask, or hogshead. B and C are false bottoms, fitting in perfectly tight, but perforated with 1-inch holes; B should be covered with Canton…
Port Wine Filter (Ton flannel to prevent)
ton flannel, to prevent the liquid being filtered from coming with too much force upon the cotton. When 15 or 20 barrels of wine have…
To Charge Champagne with Gas
wine to be fined, take 1 wine-glassful of dissolved isinglass, add a little wine and a pinch of salt, and beat to a froth with a whisk…
Scuppernong Champagne
ble, and 3 gallons sulphuric acid; put 2 gallons water in the gas washer, and 20 gallons wine in each of the fountains. For a warm climate…
To Clean Champagne Baskets
Imitation French Champagne. 40 gallons white Bordeaux wine; 1 gallon muscat wine; gallon old cognac brandy; and 4 gallons syrup made of 25…
The Cause of Muddy Champagne
The Cause of Thick Muddy Champagne. The Germans, to give strength to their common wine, add a little potato sugar, which is speedily…