Volume 74 Item 06: Sir William Macarthur memoranda regarding vintage, 1858: No. 05

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as much as in the primary fermentation.  Care has been taken to mix sorts together as much as practicable and in the subsequent rackings it is proposed to blend them still further so as to produce one uniform quality of dry white wine.  The Riesling alone excepted.  Of this sort the wine of the upper & lower vineyard had been blended together.  Owing to the number of grapes drying off the [indecipherable] resulting from [indecipherable] prepare of the [indecipherable] has been as [indecipherable] nearly, sometimes more so than the first running and has been added to it.  The quantity of wine from "Pressings" is consequently small.  The crop generally is about 15 or 16 percent than I expected, but the whole promises to be as good as from any previous vintage perhaps better.  The red grapes are all fully colored but have yet
 

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