GOOD WINE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3972, 29 April 1930, Page 79

GOOD WINE.

GERMAN WOMAN EPICURE. A WAY TO HEAVEN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, March 6. A German woman epicure in wines, Dr Louisa Sprengel, is in London telling wine merchants something about their own business. She is one of the State inspectors appointed by the German Government to look after the scientific side of the cultivation of the vines and fruits of the country, being the only woman in the world to hold such a post. The chairman of the Wine Trade Club, before whom she lectured, said that Dr Sprengel wa- the first woman who nad had the nerve to tell the wine merchants of London about wine. Two sentences of hers won her a way into the hearts of ber listeners.

“ Wine,” she said, “ frightens away melancholy and makes men merry and elated.

“Good wine makes good blood; good blood causes good humour; good humour causes good thoughts; good thoughts bring forth good work: good works carry a man to heaven; therefore, good wine carries a man to heaven.”

She talked about the intricate technicalities of vine cultivation and wine makin. She told her audience how singing and joking Rhenish girls cut the -ipe grapes with the same kind of knife as ♦ hat which the Romany used at harvest time, and bow a good cellarman ought to treat his wine.

{ “ The art of treating wine,” she said. “ depends on aptitude, conscientiousness, personal experience, and tradition." ; To- ,a newspaper representative Dr Sprengel- said: “There is nothing like good wme; it makes you happyit—how would’yba say?—lifts you up. Beer just gets on your liver. .1 sometimes take a little wine for breakfast.”