CONCERNING WINES.
People fancy that the same brand of wine should always have the same flavour and colour; but it frequently happens that through deficiency of sunshine or some other cause the produce of one year is lighter in colour or poorer in flavour than usual,* so to satisfy the popular idea additional flavour and colour are added. In Portugal blackberries and bilberries are cultivated solely for the purpose, and in one year alone Spain imported 300,0001b of elderberries to mix with sherry. The home-made wines of England are not always innocent of alcohol. I have (writes a contemporary) tasted elderberry and ginger wine which was as strong as port wine. And if you visit Suffolk your host will perhaps offer yon a glass of mead, made from honey, just as it was by our Anglo-Saxon forefathers, and more potent than the very best brandy. But there is nob a headache in a barrel of it, although, to us© a local expression., "it may make you talk about your friends."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 10
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