Show Sw 41 A 7 ST jan IS 18 isik isil ed ivoa having ing been engaged ifill or fifteen years in this territory I 1 have acquired considerable interest Inte best iest in its ita advancement the great suo zis that has attended the labors ot of the sainte in pro dueing the different varieties of 0 aults adapted to this chig climate asvery is very encouraging in many af the colder sections the abe territory where the apple appie would hardly succeed at first trials now tho the peach and apricot thrive admirably the thel culture of the grapo grape has been sadly neglected in most of our seti seta clements tle ments probably on account of the scarcity t of tho the plants and a vt V t of confidence in their zer success J I 1 fully fulling faree alree with bros bonnelli and bertrand that leht the grapo can be successfully cultivated in most of tho the settlements tle tie tiem ments ints north northan and june duno south of salt lake city and that can ean be made irL lre large quantities at moderate moderato to prices tho the importance of the subject is not realized by our community in this wild broken desert earthquake earthquakes a reigned su till its whole naco faco ans mar marked ed p heir their terrible violence the grape has found a home as congenial I 1 pre presume silme as it in syria or persia it is better adap adapt elto eito 0 0 our ur eill climate te and soil than any oth gel ZVI t wo a cultivate we vye have havo been heen ve ent in procuring the choicest va rie ile we could obtain or have any knowl iff ed and contemplate thau thai in a tew lew years hen ben we shall enjoy sa good wine as any otier other people on the tho earth I 1 must mua confess tat tai gewere we were taken by surprise b by tho ther foly 1 irking which appeared in bro bertrands bertranda Bert rands V amter er pu published blishock in the NEWS of july 1 I hope and rust that bro bonnelli bonnell in arizona bro iro didge in fil st george and ani other swiss grape grapo in a our dixie will succeed in in nuth making ing rais rals raisins raishie his equal to those of I 1 malagar 0 and in manufacturing excellent wine I 1 as ns alcoholic as sherry but with the most MOA scientific manipulations they thoy will never produce any thi thing approaching in the I 1 least degree any amy of the tho 1 aforesaid burgundy wines why simply because the climate of their locality is too warm again in your paper of sept 2nd and bro bertrand says its a laet tact indubitable that nir air bonnelli mr W E dodge of st george norge and several other oth OF grapo po cultivators in our gur dixie will soon boon succeed eod cod iii ih manufacturing largo quan titie title wine equal and perhaps 3 superior to the I st brands of madeira malaga ten tan sherry etc but I 1 say again nothing which can com compare paro with the peerless aroma of the tho first class burgundy ones it is is an utter impossibility lie lle ile lle hiso also aiso say says s 1 I do affirm thattie th tuat that atthe the first class brands ot of burgundy in my ip y first communication 1 are e til I 1 r unsurpassed aroma anoma the vory very i best es light g h t wines ines in the world i theo ovo olo aro a sweeping statements ilg but hut I 1 I 1 mii mil must av co contess contest abhat that thab iam wholly inn infidel idel idol to liola and to defend our grape against these statements the tho other dideo should be shown in place it is ewt true that all our wine nouh be heavy or too alcoholic for any well wea balanced head there is a great differ onee once cribei inthe the quantity of saccharine matter matten contained in di different Terent varieties of grapes sone somo would malk maka Q ayery avery strong wine while some other othor varieties would only make bake aver aven a very vers light wine wo have havo the double advantage advant abo ajO in a climate alimate in which vre tre can manufacture eve every evory ry grade gradd of wines that are ate pure in some cold er locations and more unfavorable soils sells the mosta grapes that could bo be grown under such conditions would woul donly on y make jakc 1 liht light 1 ht wines wises at best beat let let ua lwy annino oz examine tho the french wor tor vin win amps I 1 wil will refer the reader to the report ort oft of the committee of tho tha united states om mission at he universal exposition of paris ih in isoz on tho the culture an and ana products ortho or tho vine vino which is the most valuable publication on tho the vino vine I 1 have ever seen printed and comes from frob the tho highest authority in our nation mation tho the committee repost report when american wines were tasted j by jury at tho exposition the french ju rons imse ipso scale was from ono one to four with a zero at the foot generally complimented our catawba with a ferdand they remarked that the more of the tho natural flavor the wine assess possessed ed other things being equal the the tho lower they should estimate it in america the ver very y cont contrary retry is known to be the tho case the tho german jurors aecus i to wines of high bouquet held quite quito opinions from tho the french and were muei ralah pleased with the american i samples IL french wine wino grower ims lias introduced the into his hla vineyard and uses its j cb mix mis in tery very small proportions with grapes ito to flavor any 1 considerable ambition of the catawba p I 1 busky musky quality ronld rould be bo moro more than th anthe th 0 french Pala paia palate tC trained to like only that which is negative emmid emmia very vety well bear the tho peculiarity of the tho sort of jt i wines is bouquet and ot altho the inferior sort acidity compared with thim their air french rivals are quite negative lavrench wine white or red must bo be very poor libor indeed if it shows any acidity and must very fine indeed if it possesses any easily it I 1 buted S ted bouquet altogether wo we must pal pai palm paim tri trl of excellence to thew the tho whito bito wines of tho rhine as we do to the skill suli and hidu industry stry I 1 of the vine dressers who produce them F prom rom tho the above quotations we find that the tho peerless aroma of tho the burgundy wines i is fully appreciated only by the gri iri drench french r ench palate trained to liko like that only which is negative also aiso that tha the first class of burgundy roundy ar are b by aj t their b unsurpassed assed aroma the acry te s night Hight in r iu bince binco rib cot but hut a ili fix w www 1 it nuy bo be X qa guc pus V vino ino growers to bo mp aro are our soil bao gao 0 ia 11 y with 1 spine i of th those se favored spots ot 01 places in europe I 1 t that at produce ro their best wines wo may ray rny perhaps per pen s forma more favorable or opinion of 0 our r locality ity and come como to some definite ca conclusion cius elus whether our sun ishoo is too warm for producing delicate flavored wines winel I 1 will quota from the report of the committee above referred to re stands Chat chateau cai eai margeaux Marg eaux caux chateau la fitte vitte and chateau la tour is a bed of coarse gravel among whoso choso pebbles the eyo eye can cart barely detect soil enough to su support th a fora of vegetable life tan in the vicinity on the other othe r hand iho the land lanh Is ach rich alid arid strong enough to yield any kind of a crop yet medoe medoc grows wine that often sells forten dollars per gallon while that of bezares sometimes sells for the half of ten cents per gallon in burgundy there is a long hill on ou whose dark red xea ferruginous limestone sides a wretched thin covering of earth lies like fhe th coat of a beggar revealing not hadin hiding the nakedness beneath here hero stand littfe starveling vines very sien slen slender derand and very low yet here is tho the tee fee celebrated leb rated clos cio cios clo a Y 6 au r cot 23 and ana an a this esthe is the hill and these are aro rethe rothe the vines yield a wino ri in I 1 n excellence and value that of medoe medoc at at its base pase spreads out a wido wide and very fertile plain covered with 1 luxuriant vine vines whose jum juice julee sells from iten ten t to awe twenty nty cents per gallon if yon you go further northward and examine the hills 4 of champagne you will find them theis fo to bo be marc marc ly hills of chalk I 1 1 f I 1 from the foregoing any intelli intelligent 1 gen mind will comprehend that the tilo large amounts of heats absorbed bytho bed of pebbles or coarse gravel iathel is the principal agency of success in wines on agn the thes lopea lopes of medoc modoc the little starveling star boling nines very slender louder s and ind very low got lot of the rolden golden hill bill are ion soil calculator calculated in iu every avery respect to give good results the tho vines dines trained very low that the fruit may receive the reflected heat from the ground tyl tw 9 adil il ver vor very y shallow and rest rests 1 s ing hig ona on a warm base with ith a southern dathern du thern a aspect spoof tho the vines and thell theli roots would receive a warmth belonging to a more inore southern clime clim ie the fruit would more perfectly ripen and and have havo more moro delicacy qt flavor than would be realized in more unfavorable able situations tho Th chalk echalk hills lulls of champagne may be better understood when I 1 treat op on a aspect hect before I 1 close this conil communication n the following is frem iho the supplemental report the the tho vineyards to which Alt amt attention bAtion was mora specially given were of the borders of lake geneva tho those of pall z k or bavaria and of the thra banks of the rhine rhirie the tho and the tho main withie with regard to the quality althe os ithe soil we have tho the same remark to make here as wp jadoin in tho former report viz that the tho th evin ovin vines 5 yielding ai d the besk besl bes found to bo bb growing di on 8 poorest soil geologically I 1 I 1 A I 1 I 1 M fhe soil SPI throughout hil hll the ille disa districts V N is vor ver vary y much the th sain salu salute sair te vi basalt I 1 ah sandstone both formations usually seen acen in we clasp P proximity tox the basalt uppermost ardd arid berting on theother tho other tho the soil of the sms seema tabe tobe to b of red sandstone it ir not wholly lyo the johan Joban nesbert hill hlll remind remina rone sone strongly of tho soil ot of some parts of new sw jersey euid euld and laid connection anal in the I 1 I 1 borho arhl oti of now new now lu iu lattera lattern lattery t flate agate axe the basalt i is seel resting nu n u upon tho the rece reci atene just as i i does upon U ohp lieis liels lulls that skirt kirt the rhine rhind in considering J the merlia moki C 9 91 different soils as g y distinguished ilat list I 1 ed from each other I 1 we seem sifi di wn th n elusion that so far as our observant ob observation ddn has goue gone the ned red red ned sandstone Is tho the superior one butano confess ourselves unfit to maat any such sweeping generalization and will only say that the soji soil in lue aue tion for aught wo we can see seems as fit nut fitas ay apy aay other ot herto berto to grow growa a superior vine vire wine wire it is jj clearly ab seen soen en norn corn tho aboyo that a great portion of the soil in a th the a vicinity of st george has the tho elements necessary for growing grolln wines of 0 tho the highest quality we have here all the good qualities of the soil son of the golden hill of burgundy 0 coupled ed pied pled with those of Johann johannesberg esberg esborg hili hill providence has be been envery very lico liro fuso fuse in heaping to gether gother here the elements particularly suited to the vine I 1 will copy a few lines from to show the of beat heat in the wine regions of franco france and germany and the giat imp importance stanco of a sheltered southern thern aspect for producing wines of af high character ho he says on tho deep deop slopes of hills the south and shelter sheltered cd from the tho northeast the grapes grADO 4 1 attain tho the greatest gria test maturity and the vintage is 19 most certain so great an influence has a favorable exposure that in the same vineyard the greatest difference exists between the wine made e from one part and that made from another merely because there is a turn round the hill and the aspect varies a very few degrees A change of soil produces a similar effect the famous rhino wine called johannesberg han when mado made from the grapes which grow near the castle is worth twice as much as that made a few fer undred Imn If dred yards further off here both soil and aspect change the clos do voughan Vo boug ugean ean can which produces the finest Burgun burgundy dj I 1 is confined to a few acres beyond a certain wall the wine is a common burgundy good without ox extraordinary tra anent the vineyard of sch seh malzberg for example I 1 e I 1 near which has been boen under my management for several years yields wines wailes of the tho the ino most st dissimilar c characters harac from to another some idea of this may bo be formed from the 1 different quantities of alcohol which the wine of dint erent orent years contain hero hero here fol jows lowa a table ozithe of ithe mean adean tempera temperature for div years the meteorological mat br circumstances circum stances these those civo years influenced the dlo bio production of our wine wo we see seo at once than thac i tho the mean temperature of the days which w high make up the period of the cultivation of the wi a perceptible influence rile athe tem of ef yas of the year y a ar that hat yielded iho li 6 strongest strong eit wine and only in 1833 the wine of which was scarcely drin drinkable bie ble 11 the abodd author also says but in franco th estah and the low training ailo are aro the only matters sial suitable table tabie to the climate from erom the foregoing we wd find that nat there Is every possible adval advantage ilage taken to concen i t rate the greatest amount of heat in locations ons or situations on Steep sides of bf hills sheltered from cold winds with sout southern bern born aspect in some instances they have hauled the desirable soil suil tho fhe distance of several miles and built up their thoin vineyard some three feet and ana yet only tn in a very few instances have they tiley obtained any remarkable results for the want of a warmer southern aspect in dixie we will not have to resort to the tho steep slopes of hills for a suitable aspect our grapes ripen equally as well six feet fr from 0 m the aroun ground as they do within a it foot of it in summing ui up tho the evidences in favor of oure own locality com compared bared hared g geologically eo logically with the favored localities in franco and Gei germany many we find the foll following dwin g the latest formation is ig I 1 a broken shivered strata of limestone which rests on basalt the basalt partakes of iron and rests on tea red sandstone a thin strata of limestone lays in the rea red red stone the above principally compose our soil there is ailo also aiso red volcanic clay soil partaking of tho the above elements which which the tha tine vine appears rivo in I 1 ad thus w 4 hava hasa hav d the essential of burgundy and those of tho the Ehi ehl also wo ve lidid tin fin d our climate is the crowning point to make our locality a first class wino wine growing i region in every respect tho the mean te temperature of set sept is from 78 to soo 80 warm enough to ripen any 11 exotic q to perfection all varieties of the f ap pp grap a ape apo elhat a that have havo been ben introduced bo both th amerl aberi amerlean american ean can and ei exotic otic do well and in place of disappointment we are only surprised would advise your tooele thoele correspondents to ba be a little careful how they make their dashes into heln hein french celo velocipedes velo v cir elp adesi as our volcan volean lc andred is is not just the place for such locomotion 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