WINE Making Process 1836 (from report to Bordeaux Academy); PENNY MAGAZINE, London 

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an original 185-year old issue of

The Penny Magazine

May 7, 1836

#263

Published by The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

London: Charles Knight. 22, Ludgate Street

Printed by William Clowes and Son, Stamford Street.

 

The Feature article is titled “The Vintage” and begins with an illustration of “Wine-making at Pola”

(Pola is in Istria County, Croatia)

The article describes the wine making process from the vineyard to completion, using information gathered from a report made to the Academy of Bordeaux.

Excerpts from the Wine Making article:

“The manner in which the labors of the vintage are conducted is usually as follows: 

“The grapes are gathered by women and children, and placed in baskets after the bad and unripe fruit has been picked carefully out. …To every eight rows there are two baste carriers. The baste is a small tub used in conveying the fruit to a large cask, which is placed in a cart or wagon….”

“The grapes are then trodden under foot, as is represented in the accompanying illustration, and a hole being cut in the side of the cask, the liquor issues through it into a tub below…”

“...in filling the casks care is taken to prevent the liquor contained in the lower part of the tuns from being mixed with that which flows when it is first tapped.”  

“…. After it has fermented during fifteen or sixteen days, more water is added, care being taken not to introduce so much as will check the fermenting process. This is again left for fifteen or twenty days, and afterwards piquette of still inferior quality to that previously obtained is then made. The refuse of the fruit is then taken out of the tuns, and they are carefully cleansed.”

“….During the month following the running off the wine, it is necessary to fill up the casks every three or four days with wine of the same quality … till the last drawing, which takes place about the end of March.  The wines are racked off twice a year, in the months of March and October.”

“The above information is chiefly gathered from a report made to the Academy of Bordeaux on the cultivation of the vine and on wine-making.”

The magazine measures 7-1/4” x 10-3/4”.

Other articles in this 8-page weekly publication include:

CONDITION

This 185 year old publication is in very good condition.

Pages are straight and clean.

It appears that this weekly portion of 8 pages was removed in its entirety from a bound volume.

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