EMPIRE WINES.
THEIR ' QUALITY PRAISED. APPEAL TO ENGLISH PUBLIC. LONDON, Feb. 16. Mr. Philip Page, in an article in the Evening Standard makes a plea to his readers to drink Imperially. He says Empire wines have ceased to be the sport of humorists. He urges purveyors to dispense with proclaiming their medicinal properties. Anyone proclaiming their superiority as such to champagne, claret and Burgundy (France), port (Portugal), sherry (Spain), and hock (Germany) is an egregious ass and is damaging the cause he is espousing. " The best wines of those countries ara supreme, but many are poor. On the other hand, Empire wines preserve a steady level, but do not receive fair play in their trial by the public nor the English wine trade association, which do not recognise them.
"There is more snobbery in wine drinking than in any other form of gratifying the senses," says Mr. Page. ' " Millions smack their lips at expensive and inferior European tipple and eneeringly dismiss something four times as good because it is labelled Empire."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21110, 18 February 1932, Page 9
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