Volume 73: Macarthur family memoranda and accounts relating to wine, 1838-1930: No. 055
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old in April 1851.
No 8. A case containing [indecipherable] bottle samples of a wine
made in April 1844 from the same vineyard and the same kind of grapes as the last, but in a still more desiccated state, fermented in the same manner but without the addition of any ardent spirit.
To the foregoing brief account of their mode of growth are added the following observations with reference to the general characters of these wines, and to a peculiar disease which they are subject.
When their sugar becomes so completely attenuated as to be no longer perceptible to the palate they appear to be susceptible of being kept to a great age, gradually improving in quality. They have in this state a certain [dryness?] and [bitterness?], peculiar to the wines of New South Wales, to which the palate becomes accustomed