Identifier: lifelibertyiname00mack (find matches)
Title: Life and liberty in America;
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889
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Publisher: New-York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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wines,had the fortune to discover this excellent old man, good soldier, and skillful vintager. Soon after his arrival he was placed in the responsible position of chief wine-maker and superintendent under Mr. Longworth. Under the guidance of this venerable gentleman — Mr. Christian Schnicke—we traversed the vineyards, learned the difficulties he had surmount-ed and yet hoped to surmount; the varieties of grape on which he had made experiments; the names of the wines he had succeeded in producing, and the number of acres that,year after year, he brought under cultivation. We ended by repairing to his domicil, on the crown of the hill, where he set before us bread and cheese, and a whole constellation of native wines. Among others were Dry Catawba and Sparkling Catawba, both excellent; a not very palatable wine produced from grapes imported from the Cape of Good Hope;and two other wines almost equal to Catawba itself—one from the grape called the Isabella, rosy-red as the morning, and
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IMAGE: The banks of the Ohio. Mr Longworth’s vineyards - the queen city of the west. 137 sparkling as the laughter* of a child; the other a dry wine,of a pale amber color, clear, odoriferous, and of most delicate flavor, and almost equal to Johannisberger. This wine, it appeared, had not arrived at the honors of a name; was not known to commerce; and was simply designated by Mr.Schnicke as the wine of the Minor Seedling grape. As so excellent a beverage could not .remain forever without a name,it received one on this occasion in the manner recorded by Colonel Fuller in the following extract from a letter to the New Orleans Picayune : On visiting Mr. Longworth's vine-yard in the neighborhood of Cincinnati, vineyards which yield from six to seven hundred gallons to the acre, we found the boss to be an old soldier of Napoleon the Great, and as devoted to the memory of the emperor as he is enthusiastic in the culture of the vine. Producing a very choice brand of the color of amber, and with a bouquet that filled the room,called the wine of the Minor Seed

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