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Show I of which I hall fpeak in the following Part Plots, it muft neverthelefs be allowed, that we have the Advantage over the greateft Part of other Wines ; that we are able to make them fach as we would have, and fuch as are de- this Article. They make in this Plot of Vineyards, as prefent drinking, red without being harfh, a little hard, and fometimes a great deal, and yet without lofing its Quality ; and thus we are able to make a Wine equally good to drink thro’ the whole Courfe of the Year, and alfo afterwards of the White, of which there are a few Things to be faid. The beft and moft precious Wines of alf that are made in this Plot of Vineyards, is the Auvernat. Of this there are fix Species, viz. manded ; that isto fay, a delicate Wine fit for for many Yearsafter. well as in many others, both Red Wine Sad White. I ‘hall {peak firft of the Red, and the Auvernat Teint, the Black, the Red, the Grey, and two Kinds of White ; which are the But, onthe contrary, is it not a great Fault White Auvernat of Solers, and that ofthe in certain Wines, in that they cannot be kept good for the Space of one Year? For one Low Country. The Auvernat Teint is the reddeft, and asit of thefe uns is fpoilt before it is half has alfo the Quality, it gives the Colour and empty; alfo the fame Accident happens to it, when being quite full, the Heats furprize it the Body to the other uvernats, and prebefore they have put it into the Vault, for vents them from growing ropy ; and whenit is mingled with the Red only, they ought to thefe Wines don’t {poil but when they are delicate, weak, and when they have been let it remain in the Vat little while, efpecifcarcely tunn’d ; and if they fhould be tunn’d ally in thofe Years that thereis Reafonto beany more, they would become harfh, and lieve the Wine will take as much Colour as they entirely lofe that little Quality they have in would that it fhould have,or where it grows on a Soil where the Wine has always beenaccuthe Vat. There are in this Kingdom many Vineyard- ftom’d to have Colour enough by being tunn’d Plots, the Vines of which have this bad Qua- but a little. Some pretend, that one Quart, or thereliry ; and yet thefe are the Wines that are fo much boafted of, which will not keep the abouts, of the Wine [de Zeiut] of the 'Tindture, Year without fpoiling, if they were not pre- or of [gros Noire] the large Black, to a Vat ferv’'d by ours, which have more of the Qua~ offifteen Puncheons of Red Auvernat, will have a good Effect. lity than they. I ownthat it will give it a fine Colour, withBut if thofe who put fo great a Slight out rendering it harfh, provided it be not upon our Wines, thould fay we do not know how to make them, they would reafon tunned too long ; but as this Zeént, or this when they gros Noire, have no Quality but that of giving more juftly than they do, would have us to believe that our Wines are it the Colour, I am of the Opinion that the not good ; for they ought to allow that they Auvernat Teint, which is very red, fubftantial are good in themfelves; and we thall agree, and vinous, produces a better Effect : but it that if there is any Fault inthem, it is by Ac- requires only to put more of that of the eint cident, fince it only proceeds from the Man- than of the gros Noire, becaufe the 4 colours a great deal lefS than thofe two K ner of making it. Then it muft be faid, that the Wines of of Grapes. The riper both the one and the otherare, Orleans are good; but that they make them ill: and then there is nothing more wanting, the more Wine theyyield, and the more C oug but to avoid the Faults in the Manner of they have ; and for this Reafon they and that is what I am Ve have in this Plot of Vir going to ds fo many different Sorts ofSoils and P , that it would not be eafy to give a Direction for the Manner of making the Wines from each ofthem: I can only fay in the general, that in order to m ke rood Wine, the Soil ought to bepro- per for the 5 well expos'd to the Sun, on : clenfion from the North to the r dry than moift, that the P] fF a good Kind and well-ch wrought, and in always w ork them ;. and that n Degree of fore they be cut and have been that they be tv den, when one yuld have a Colc ng. s certain, that when rcur, it will be eafy tot ere are yet her if \ never to be gathered, but when they are 1 their perfeét Maturity. The Auvernat Teint ought not to be planted indifferently in all Sorts of Lands, becaufe it will not do well in all ; and for this Reafon, thofe who would have them, ought at firft to plant but a few, to fee if they will fucceedin to their Lands: Alfo Care muft be mingle them with others in planti one maythe better know what Quan fhould put into every Vat, which will I ficult to do, if they were planted cc with other Auvernats thence good mix’d Wi Altho’ the 4uv Grape of itfelf, yet it too much of it be p i ill alter the Qual never better or red Plants, to But then I fuppofe, that this red Auvernat grew upon good Lands; for there are fome which of themfelves do not give enough to the Wines that they produce: In this Cafe it is good to plant the dyvernat Tient. I is true, that this Wine being mix’d, will not be fo fine, as ifit were only the pure red ernat, but then again, it will maintain it tter: And when one would make an , which has a ftrong Tartnef§ and a od Flavour, without having any Colour, zat about the you muft put to the red little fermented, are very fubjec&to be ropys at leaft if the Vines do not grow in flinty Lands ; neverthelefS they are fometimes fubjeét to be fo in fuch Lands, but indeed not fo much as the others, Whenthis Grey Auvernat has been made off-hand, or when it has been tunned but a verylittle while, andit is once gone fromthis Vineyard-Plot, and is denominated by a borrowed Name, it is an eafy Matter to make it pafs for fuch a Wine as is defired, whether it be fold as it is, or whether it be mir But t Mixture muft be madein fuch Manner, that the Quantity of the Grey 4 | forb'd by the Redthat is t It is not proper to let th feventh Part of the Me/ier, or of good white with others of a higher Colour. Auvernat, fach as now grows in the Vineyards , be able to make of Blois : this Mixture, it is neceflary that this Meer, or white Auvernat be ripe at the fame Time as the red Auvernat. Manner, is fo exA Wine mad cellent, and fo difguifed, that it is made to pafs for pure Burgandy Wine, and is fold at Paris as fuch in wicker’d Bottles : d other Ple % Wine-Conners are there deceived y Day. The Auver without Diftinétion is red ; where a Wine, made after ther’d; for if it were known that this Plot of Vineyards of Or/eans froduc’dit, there would need nothing more to make it lofe all its Merit in the Opinions of thofe who fuffer themfélves fo eafily to be prejudiced againft our Wines. Whenthis Wine is made without any M ture, then one perceives all the good Quality; and when it is cut with the Auvernat Teint, it theyalfo nameit from its Skin, which is brown, is indeed lefS fine, but it keeps the longer, and becaufe its Colour is not of fo deep a red as is not fo fubjeét to grow ropy. And when the that of the Auvernat Teint, and becaufe it is Red Auvernat is mingled with thefe two deeper than the Grey Auvernat, which is al- other Species of this makes one moft quite white, and that too when it has of the beft Wines that can be drank, and it ’d very much. This Kind ofred been the moft common among the will keep without Harfhnefs, becaufe this Grey which allays and one ofthe beft Wines Auvernat has a Fund of Delicacy black Auveri Teint, and this of the 4uver the Harfhnefs that grows in this Plot of Vineyards. byits Firmnefs fuftains the other, and makes ] Black « The (Auvernat it keep the longer. very uncommon in this Country, and known Many Vignerons do not knowat all, and ons ; its Berry is rounder than the byfew others feign that they do not know, the true black as J other Grey Auvernat ; and the one from Malice and that is it, which fome and the other thro’ Ignorance, confound There is alfo anothe 3 it with a certain Plant, which theycall Grey, or ° Jouas rons call the the Miller’s Wife ; but this is a black Formente ffers nothing from tt i or Bourguignon, which is nothing ofan Auts Pruit. ood is very big as vernat. s | and well fill’d ; and This Plant is one of the leaft that is in this this Kind was not fo fcarce in it, becaufe the fineft, and one of Vineyard-Plot ; yet many plant it produces a great deal of Wine, and becaufe and neither white, nor it refifts the Frofts of the Spring-time, to Vineyards, ; Colour the other Accidents that happen better ryation, that in certain Lands comes black in about twelve or fter the planting of thefe Vines ; { without lofing their Quality. Joes not come yards veryold, wat ofthis Qua- od Tafte, I am of 3 but Auvernats. than other Andthis is that this Plant isa without doubt for this the Reafon, one mayfay, true Drudge, and it is Reafon, that thofe whohave it, always gather more Wine than others whohave it nots but this great asthe Quality of the Wine is not in comes Quantity, it is feldom that this Wine too good; forfive or fix M ynths after it has Cos been made, it grows flat, tart, without it is not Jour, and alfo is {poiled, by reafon firlt Heats of put into a good V ault before the oftentimes the the Spring of the Year, becaute turns it. firft Clap of Thunder Merchants Wine, becau Headinefs, wl th furnifh 4 lefs it be two or three Month Neverthelefs elves with this and has a certain yat has not, un- ifter it has been made. In_ planting this wretched Plant we have Places” nd out the Secret of{poilingE the beft of |