Show AN N ARGUMENT FOR FORTHE FORTHE I THE USE OF WINES Qu Questions Question of oC t. t That May Ia Be lie Beof I of Service er to Social Apropos the general lessening of or the taste for 01 the time JI lighter French wines and the proportionate Increase In the tho sales of or whiskies brandies and heavier stimulants the time British Lancet publishes publishes pub pub- lishes an Interesting article on the results re results results re- re of or this condition and also strongly strong strong- ly h advising that steps be taken to encourage encourage en en- enI I coura courage e the sales ales of oC wines In place of or the other The general Impression that wines would be too expensive e as a beverage beverage bever bevel age It declares Is erroneous Bordeaux Bordeaux Bordeaux Bor deaux wines or clarets were never ne cheaper more abundant and purer than the they are ale In the present day Lack of or this knowledge has caused people to believe that the tho bulk of oC wine sold Is too cheap to be good In an au analysis of oC wines bought In the open markets of or London at the cheapest prices price it was vas found that the they were not only genuine but of ot excellent l Hy ly There are arc few social reformers who do not a agree ee that the less alcohol a nation drinks tho the better It surely follows that the less potent and al alcoholic alcoholic alcoholic al- al coholic beverage is tho the better al also o for In that case the time physiological al allowance allowance allowance al- al lowance of or alcohol Is less likely to be exceeded It would be bc Interesting If Ir scientific men who vv ho condemn tho the use u e of al alcohol alcohol alcohol al- al cohol in any form Corm would conduct an experimental inquiry to determine whether it H I Is correct to assume that the effect of or alcohol In the tho form of or orwIne wine is the same as when pure al alcohol alcohol alcohol al- al cohol Is given I cn There can be little question that n a light natural wine Is Infinitely less IcS harmful physiologically physiologically call cally as regards alcohol than arc are ardent ardent ardent ar ar- ar- ar dent spirits No b better evl evidence ence In support of or this can be cited than the thc countries fact that In spirit drinking chime ant and disease a ascribable to alcohol alcohol alco alco- hol imol are the rule while In countries where Ii light ht wines are consumed the thc evils lIs arising from flom coin drink arc are the thc exception ex ex- exception and drunkenness enness Is comparatively comparatively tI el unknown The reputation of the wines of th the tho Gironde has been built upon the yield In of an area represented some som acres under cultivation while the complete district Is not more than sixty rive miles smiles b by eighty miles or anarea an all anarea area of i. i 00 square miles I The whole producing wine area aiea of oC which we speak I Is in fact rather less les than the time area of the county of oC Yorkshire in EI Elgland land and anti yet it Il has furnished th the claret supply for Cor years and years cars and no 10 other country countr in the world can compete with It Il in Im producing me nr f r requal equal delicacy fragrance and antI elc- elc ga nn gance n co From the year eat ear 1880 1890 onwards the time production has ste steadily Increased ed al although although al- al though h the area arca under cultivation atlon has hasI I remained much the same sarno improved methods of oC cultivation have in fact resulted In a greater yield of or fruit and hence of wine twine Of course some years cars show a diminished yield i owing to unfavorable unfavorable un un- favorable Insect rn a ravages es The rho yield In 1850 was gallons and In 1900 the most prolific year car It was 1 gallons In 1901 It was gallons and In hm the last vintage 1905 the production promised promised prom prom- to be bo about gallons s Bordeaux may be called the city or of f cellars every ever conceivable conc space un- un under ler der ground being beins utilized for COl the storing stor- stor torIno Ino ing ng of wine nIne and It may bo ho Imagined what whitt Immense e to ks th these o arc nrc Thelt The Tho Tholly elt city lly lies at the southern extremity of the 1 but Is situated In the tho UPper upper upper up UP- per part of or the Graves district In Bordeaux the tho expression vin blancet blanc et rou rouge means white and rod wine produced In to districts shown on the tho map lying around the city Time The Is II less Inland than the other districts and In hm fact tact Is situated between time the sea soa and the tho broad estuary of or the Gironde In places this estuary estuar Is Ismore Ismore ismore more than five miles wide vide On the east ast side of the estuary estuar and northwards northwards northwards north north- wards lies Hes the bordering In Its turn on the thc famous ramous brand producing brandy district the Char- Char ante with Cognac c as its center It is curious that claret Is so often regarded as an acid or a 0 sour SOUl wine As a matter of fact It Is the least acid of oC all wines and Is 15 certainly less acid than white wine Claret is the ch driest iest of wines there thoro being practically practically no sugar Hugal present to disguise the small degree acidity that exists The palpability of oC sparkling wines such sucha a as champagne is considerably diminished dimin dimin- diminished when the thc wine Is excessively dr dry and they appear intensely acid when hen the sugar is removed |