Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1882 — Wine in California. [ARTICLE]

Wine in California.

There are many little wineries in San Francisco. In this business good-profits are realized upon a small capital. A visitor to a winery describes the process of crushing forty tons of Zinfandel grapes. The owner of the establishment bad invested $2,000 in casks and machinery, and a vat cost $325. Two Italians and a German were at work. The wine made in these small manufactories is sold by the gallon as soon as it is fit to drink. Though pure, it is alcoholic and heady. If kept two or three years the wine is choice, but as a yearling wine it tends to stupefy. The Zinfandel grapes were imported from Hungary. J. J. Johhbom, of Richmond, Ind., writes: "If every man knew what a good medicine Dr. Gaysott’e Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla is, there would be fewer invalids. It cured me of dyspepsia. It cured my wife of general ill health. I think it the best medicine I ever used."