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Show I WHAT WINE SHOULD COST. English. Consul Siys It Should Be ns Cheap ns Dcet or Cidci Jlr Consul Ileum s npoit cut the trade nnd commerce of Ilordenux nnd district for the yciu 1W Ims Just been Issued In the foreign ntllee annual ser lea nnd will le foun 1 nt much Interest Inter-est to wine merchants and claret drink crs Mr ileum discusses the question if obtaining In lhiglnn I a genuine claiet at a reasonable prl.e 'Hy Ihe aid of n resectable wine merchant ' he says It Is generally possible to get this for home consumption consump-tion hut lu hotels restauianis an I other public pi ices even wheie It Is possible lo get a genuine claret, It Is not imsslhte to pay n reasonable price for It I believe that good, sound ordinary claret should be its nno-slble nno-slble to everybody a, beer elder or whisky Leaving the question of duties du-ties and excise on one side the Initial cost nf pioluiHon cnnnii differ nry niiirb altlinukh of course wine b.is tu be kept ceinslletaldy longer than beer btfoie It is til for consumption, but then whisky ought to le kept still linger I tlm! n leeiird of exieiullture and receipts per neie on it vineyard producing a fair luuirgrsile wine 'Ihe geneinl ixpcnses which Unhide lost of pure base opening up nnd planting of land buildings tie (inleiilated at thirty years pun hasei wink nut nt 11 $s tier acre pel milium linking a tolal annual expendlluie of Ul is . in mic u aiie uf this vlmyuid gave In lvai 4vo gallons or wlue which were mil In bnriel, on the eit fm J J, bl, thus h uvlng n ilenr pmllt pel line nf (Id IC 10 1 whlih does not ,upsirt the coinplnlnC that vineyard ploprlelor, ale mine I Now 111. 4M gnllon, whhh wile sold for 15, 3s Id woik out at n trllle over Is 2d pet gallon 'Mlhough wllh inereliint s expenses flelght mil duty Ihe above Mini does not represent by it long way the cost of this wine delivered In Ihe Unlnd Kingdom sllll I think It show, that such i wine eoiild he sold with n hill piotlt ut fair price within the rinch of nil The llordeuux wine groweia hn I inrirhaul, of nil hud the Held all to themselves nnd with mile exerlbm on their pail ordcrH uud nuiiuy came rolling In. uud thl, habit be, itne sn much their second uatuie tint In these dnvK of keen cinnpi lltlon ninny of them siein to he hardly awnki tn the sltiiutloii und expect tn mike profits on their whns on the sime scale an when they enjoyed a prnctlcal inntinp-oly inntinp-oly They must now, however muki up In the fart that excellent tnble wines, In some respect, resembling claret, are inuring on to the nicrket front Australia Callfornli Cyiiu, Italy, llussli anl l'ortiignl tn which will soon be lidded Ihnse of South ,f rlca und Siulh Amrrlia It Is In be hoped lint these new cnuntrli, will limit In their vineynrdn nttly the best kind, nf lluropemi giapes and leave the Anierlcnn vine, nlnne With the great Ineiiase In the wnrld, wine prn eluctlon Itordemx wine Mower, and merrhnnts must be mulent with smiil-er smiil-er prutlt, Ihmi formerly nml rely em the modern trnde niaxlui 'small prnilts und quick icluriis' The enormous innsses nf hntlled wine, lying III the Uirdenux Mulls,' a, the cellers here ite cillcd, nre it standing iioof either that the public will no longei drink line claiei, or that It will not pay the price nsked." London Kliindnrd |