Show WILES wilm IS WINES WOES practising practicing tricks with the jnice juice of the impe I hyou W U telegraph raph to ur the naw boar feb I othe O the JW post has his the trade journals are sire aga attention to the fact that a large proportion of oatlie the wines sold in this country as its foremen wine is produced in california and bold sold in bottles labeled with imitation foreign labels A beaver street wine merchant t said yesterday yest yesterday erda in speaking of the matter the eh chief ef trouble is that the fidello men the wholesale I wine ina merchants who buy from the ilia wine maker and sell eu to the retailer aro are interested in keeping up tip tho tile deception cep tion because beca uee by means of itchey it they are enabled to buy cheap and sell dear it is to their advantage to cry down american wines as inferior to foreign products and when they try to sell ell american wines for what they really are they find more oppe from men who sell american wines under borei foreign n names than from the few bouses houses which really deal in foreign product every plausible trick is is rasor resorted d to ro for r the purpose of dis the fact that the tile wine sold is california wino win even in san francisco where some local pride might be expected to help llie the bale sale of native wines they are bottled and android sold largely wi with t h french labels some being acin imitations of the tile celebrated houses and others being more innocent of tho the deception because they do not steal trade marks since the tile passage of an act imposing a fine of aw for bellini selling wine with forged label labels tile fraud is carried on more carefully and cases of bottles a are e sent by wine merchante mer chanta to retail dealers without labels separately und I which are pasted on according to the tile demands of customers oue one case we of ameri american ca n wine ina ca can n by th this is i jy y a te in of associated labels do service for half a dozen french brands brat ids in nine cases out of ten according to a letter recently published in lit this th wine wite and fruit grower what is sold as french winn ino in itt california is in made there the immense profit in the deception de c is what keeps it up the effect t edtion is detrimental to wine makers who do not reap any advantage from the increased consumption of their wines I have been told by one of the old cst est wine makers in california that it waa was absolutely indispensable to do any business to affix a foreign label at the request aest odthe of the customer if it his I hou house felid did noldo it another would I have seen in bottling r roo au m f e cat a wine la a email m all m mountains u n of buttgen but ties out of which very few could be picked which dented with spurious labels the manager of one eatA said to pe thebo thebe bottles come from all parts of the state yon yog see that they have all foreign labels and doubt doubtless leas their contents were sold d as imported wine taking up bottles indiscriminately I ina tely I read such labels as cante noc medoc 1864 D hiscott bordeaux margaux mcdoe F keppler cie bordeaux A san francisco sauterne pouget fils FIN bordeaux on a genuine antrine bottle was a san sun francisco franciaco fabel fabel ot of cantenac Cante nac pouget gils gila bordeaux ou a california made bottle ft t label b edof of what purported to be german rhian hock kronen thaler F weller co mainz was stuck on a french claret bottle bottle and an in imitation of chateau la a hose ross label bought boughtin in san francisco at fa a 1000 might be read on a good many A fac jac jimile of the due de montebello label might be seen on a california betkie and on another a label of tie the imaginary firm E brossler Bl coa co rhine hine I A dealer in nothing but Calif california forn la wines who sells them as such and is arvina to educate the public taste t to like ft it under its true name eaid said the california Californi wine awine growers have then delves to io thank for the present ce condition of affairs instead of devoting themselves vesto to making a pure wine they attempt to try all sorts of da vices to imitate european winea wines in color anil flavor and thus played directly jinta nto tho bands hands of the importers import TB As to th the a fact that an enormous quantity of california wine Is sold under loreign labels thero is no doubt whatever any wina wine merchant will I adroit admit that not one twentieth of the w wine ina sole to tho consumers in this country in 60 was sold as american four hundred and aud fifty thousand gal ions lons were sold in one month to foreign im importing imp houses lit in this city gallons to a spanish linn firm who would deny point blank having any anything thin to do with such a stuff as american wine tile only remedy is for the tile wine producers pro ducre to establish their own agencies and crete create ft a demand for native wines ewines A member of a french importing houie louse said undoubtedly undo american wine is sold under 71 foreign labels but it is still possible to buy real french wine persons accas accustomed t out to drinking wine know the diner ence instantly stanlly in and our custor ners would detect it if we were to attempt such a fraud if it were possible to do so do you chink we could go on oil paying thousands of dollar dollard every year estrin in duties if the americans cans believe T i eve that they can make as good la it wine as the french let them takeoff take t ha lie duties and the field will then be free for the best beat wine to win |