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Masdeu.
MASDEU .
A ROUSILLON RED WINE .
VINO TIFFUGIUNT MOItDACES CUB / E .
THE Proprietors of the Gray ' s Inn Wine Establishment beg to announce to their friends and the public that , after strict examination of this win ° ; of various vintages , and at all ages , from one to twenty years old , they have determined upon adopting and giving it their strongest recommendation , as well worthy ( both in quality and price ) to take its stand among those in general consumption in this country . They
had indeed long been convinced of the suitable qualities of many of the French wines , comparatively unknown in England , for this purpose ; but the heavy and unequal taxation created by the Methuen Treaty , in 1703 , amounting almost to a prohibition of their consumption , operated as a check to anything like a general knowledge of their variety and usefulness .
This prohibition , inimical alike to the interests and good feelings of both England and France , continued until the year 1831 , when the English government determined on the equalization , of the duties on the wines of France arid Portugal , and in that yeaT the measure passed into a law . This obstacle removed , a new field was at once opened for the employment of capital and exertion ; it gave a strong stimulus to the wine-growers of France , and encouraged them to enter into competition with their hitherto more favoured brethren of the Peninsula ;
they having long felt confident , that , whenever they were placed on the same footing , the qualities of their wines ] would fully justify them in making the attempt ; for as Dr . Hendersou , in Ms work on wines , says , " the French territory furnishes some of the best specimens of wine in each class , and unquestionably excels every other region of the globe in the manufacture of red wines in particular . "
Similar feelings induced the Proprietors of the Gray ' s Inn Wine Establishment to turn their attention to this object ; and the result of their inquiries convinced them that the best wines of Rousillon , but more particularly that from the estate of Masdeu , possessed all the requisite qualities for British consumption . This is a red wine having all the characteristics of port as to fulness and vinous properties ,
combined with that delicacy of flavour , high aroma , and exquisite bouquet , which are the peculiar distinctions of the wines of France . Cyrus Redding ' s particular description of this wine , in the second edition of his work on modern wines , pages 136-7 , is too well known to need quotation . Still , notwithstanding their favourable opinion of this wine , the Proprietors , naturally jealous of the established reputation of their firm , were unwilling to risk it by introducing an article which had never yet endured the test of practical and personal experience as to the effects the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masdeu.
MASDEU .
A ROUSILLON RED WINE .
VINO TIFFUGIUNT MOItDACES CUB / E .
THE Proprietors of the Gray ' s Inn Wine Establishment beg to announce to their friends and the public that , after strict examination of this win ° ; of various vintages , and at all ages , from one to twenty years old , they have determined upon adopting and giving it their strongest recommendation , as well worthy ( both in quality and price ) to take its stand among those in general consumption in this country . They
had indeed long been convinced of the suitable qualities of many of the French wines , comparatively unknown in England , for this purpose ; but the heavy and unequal taxation created by the Methuen Treaty , in 1703 , amounting almost to a prohibition of their consumption , operated as a check to anything like a general knowledge of their variety and usefulness .
This prohibition , inimical alike to the interests and good feelings of both England and France , continued until the year 1831 , when the English government determined on the equalization , of the duties on the wines of France arid Portugal , and in that yeaT the measure passed into a law . This obstacle removed , a new field was at once opened for the employment of capital and exertion ; it gave a strong stimulus to the wine-growers of France , and encouraged them to enter into competition with their hitherto more favoured brethren of the Peninsula ;
they having long felt confident , that , whenever they were placed on the same footing , the qualities of their wines ] would fully justify them in making the attempt ; for as Dr . Hendersou , in Ms work on wines , says , " the French territory furnishes some of the best specimens of wine in each class , and unquestionably excels every other region of the globe in the manufacture of red wines in particular . "
Similar feelings induced the Proprietors of the Gray ' s Inn Wine Establishment to turn their attention to this object ; and the result of their inquiries convinced them that the best wines of Rousillon , but more particularly that from the estate of Masdeu , possessed all the requisite qualities for British consumption . This is a red wine having all the characteristics of port as to fulness and vinous properties ,
combined with that delicacy of flavour , high aroma , and exquisite bouquet , which are the peculiar distinctions of the wines of France . Cyrus Redding ' s particular description of this wine , in the second edition of his work on modern wines , pages 136-7 , is too well known to need quotation . Still , notwithstanding their favourable opinion of this wine , the Proprietors , naturally jealous of the established reputation of their firm , were unwilling to risk it by introducing an article which had never yet endured the test of practical and personal experience as to the effects the