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little, such as the Verdeilho. Still the existence of such a disease, which we understand to have been experiance by other proprietors, has been a most material check, indeed the only serious [one?] we have experienced, in the growth of wine.
We can rarely depend that any wine, even up to the age of three or four years, will not become more or [less?] affected, so long as it retains any trace of [sweetness?]. Some which was so much affected as to be very acid to the taste and which had never attenuated below 1015° yielded one gallon of proof spirit to about 4 ½ gallons of wine or at least 11 per cent of pure alcohol. Red wines have not been subject to the disease.
We are satisfied that in the older of our vineyards the quality of the produce has perceptibly improved with the age of the [vines?]
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