Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1911 — Tribute to American Wine. [ARTICLE]

Tribute to American Wine.

“Plastering" wine is so old it was told of by Pliny. Sherry raisers say sherry must be plastered to be sherry. Two pounds of dry plaster of parts (sulphate of lime) is sprinklsd on the mashed grapes as soon as. they are trodden out by big, web-foot peasants, men and women, of stginy Spain. Good grape juice of California may not become the mighty matter In history that tha wines of the Medit* terranean have—California lacks Horace and Omar to sing of thsm—nevertheless, ours are the real stuff and as good as any.—New York Press. ■