Volume 73: Macarthur family memoranda and accounts relating to wine, 1838-1930: No. 054

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No 54
pg 3

No 3. A quarter cask the produce of the last described vineyard on the hill, from the White Muscat of Lunel, The grapes being suffered to acquire a very high degree of maturity, to the extent of shrivelling on the bunches, and their juice being fermented by itself in casks with the bungs out. To this wine, during the tumultuous fermentation, was added, at three different times, very pure brandy, previously filtered through a [thickness?] of 10 feet of animal charcoal to render it quite [flavourless?], at the rate of about two parts of pure Alcohol to the hundred of wine; will be three years old in April 1851.

No4. A quarter cask from part of the same vineyard where the soil varies in having a large [admixture?] of a kind of soft ferruginous gravel made from the Red and Black Muscat of Frontignan, in the same manner as the last, and with the addition of the same quantity of spirit, will be three years 
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