IN VINO VERITAS IN VINO VERITAS A BOOK ABOUT WINE - CONTENTS -
CHAPTER PAGE I. THE WINE TRADE OF ENGLAND 5 11. THE VINEYARDS OF
THE WORLD - 54 111. THE VINE AND ITS FRUIT - - 95 IV THE ART OF
WINE-MAKING - - 115 THE ART OF DISIILLATION - - 141 VI. ALCOHOL AND
THE HUMAN BODY - 174 INTRODUCTION Addressing a meeting of total
abstainers, at Manchester, a short time ago, the Bishop of Lincoln
deplored the fact that teetotalism was making no headway. The
common sense of the race is asserting itself and condemns with
equal justice all excesses intemperance in drink is universally
deprecated and the intemperance in speech and statement of total
abstinence advocates, whose antagonism to alcohol has fossilised
into superstition, is equally condemned by all sober-minded people.
The immense majority of brain-workers, in this as in all other
civilised countries, drink wines and spirits, and there must be
many who would like to know something more reliable about alcohol
than what is to be found in the numerous publications issued by
total abstinence associations. There has not been any comprehensive
work upon wines and spirits published in England for many years,
and the Committee of the Wine Trade Club have decided to issue a
series of text-books to supply the public as well as winemerchants
with authentic facts and figures about wines and spirits. The
present volume is the first of these text-books it consists of six
chapters which correspond to the six lectures delivered by the Wine
Trade Club at Vintners Hall during the winter of 1911-1912. It may
be said to form an introduction to the study of the subject it
contains a strictly correct but very short description of the
history of the wine tradein England and general information on the
growing of vines, the art of wine-making, the science of
distillation and the effects of alcohol upon the human body. Some
will be satisfied with the superficial knowledge gained from the
following pages, but many more may be induced thereby to take a
keener interest than hitherto into a branch of. commerce the study
of which offers a larger and more varied field of research than any
other. The next volumes will deal exhaustively with the different
wines of the world at the historical and technical points of view.
One volume of the series will deal with the botanical, scientific,
chemical, medical, and political aspects of the question, whilst
another volume will be entirely devoted to spirits. A. L. S.
Chvistmas, 1912. CHAPTER I The Wine Trade of England Past and
Present THERE is no trade in the land of greater antiquity than the
Wine Trade, nor can any other branch of commerce claim to possess
greater or wider interest. The Romans, during their occupation of
Britain, probably imported some wine for their own use, but they
never introduced viticulture in the country, nor can they be said
to have established a regular trade in wines between England and
the Continent. The use of wine and the knowledge of I viticulture
in England are coeval with the introduction of the Christian faith.
In nearly eSery Eastern and Continental province of the Roman
Empire, vines were cultivated and wine was easy to procure not so,
however, in Britain, and there is no doubt that wine was imported
regularly by the first Christian priests who obtained a
sufficiently secure footing in this country and were able to build
a church or monastery as a permanent abode. Theseearly missionaries
kept as close a connection as the times permitted with the larger
and wealthier churches already flourishing in Gaul they were, in
many instances, the offshoots of these Continental missions, which
supplied them with the clothing and the wine necessary to carry on
their ministry, as well as with spiritual guidance...
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