State Library of NSW
056 accustomed, but which passes off to a great extent by long keeping. The wines made by us rarely become fit to use until past tree years old, and are greatly improved when kept several years longer. We have had samples twelve years old improving to the last. They are exceedingly wholesome and are extensively used by those persons who acquire a taste for them. It is a matter of great regret to us that the [shortness?] of the notice with reference to the inhabitants of this side of the globe, has prevented our being prepared with specimins of older wine for the exhibition. But although the wine when it once loses its [sweetness?] appears to be susceptable of keeping without risk of degenerating, we have experienced most extensive lapses from a species of deterioration of which we can find no description in any works relating to the subject. We have been the most subject to this malady in those years
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