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The Vineyard, a Treatise, the Observations Made by a Gentleman in His Travels [signed S.j.].
The Vineyard a Treatise the Observations Made by a Gentleman in His Travels - signed S.j. Author:S. J General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1727 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: H Avi Kg thus continued to fill up your Casks to two Inches, for about ten or twelve Days, you muft afterwards fill them to within, one Inch of the Vent-hole, once in five or fix Days, and continue fb to do, for the (pace of a Month, after which, once in fifteen Days will be fuffici- ent, for the fpace of about three Months. N o T w Ithstandinq the Fermentation will be over, long before this time laft mentioh'd ; you muft yet obferve to fill up all your Casks once a Month, fb long as they continue in your CelJarj though it be for ieveral Years; for you muft confider, that the Wines will infenfibly waft in the Casks, and if they are not kept continually fill'd up, will grow flat and heavy. I need not inform you,- that you muft ftop the Vent-holes of your Casks, when the Fer- mentatjari is over; your own discretion will be Efficient to direcfc you in thatj as your Obfer- vation will be to Inftrucl; you, when it is a proper time. I N Champaign, and Burgundy, they carefully obferve, to move their Wines twice a Year con- ftantly ; to which purpofe, the Dealers therein, have Store-houfes both above and under Ground About April, when they find the Warm Influence of the approaching Seafbn, to prevent their Wines from being effected thereby, they lay them down in their Cellars, or Store-houfes under Ground) as being much cooler then thofe above Ground, where they fuffer them to continue, untill about November following, when F ' the the coldncfS of the Seafon rendering their Wdre- houfes above Ground, much cooler then thofe under-neath. they draw up their Wines and de- pofite them in the Warehoufes above,...« less