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with their own thin bodied ones, and fell them for claret to the Englifh, Dutch, Sec.They make much brandy ; five barriques make one of brandy. I drank this wine ofthree and ten years old ; the latter 30/. the bottle, and both excellent. I imported abarrique, three years old, at 100 livres prime cods and charges; and it cod me into mycellar in Suffolk 15I. more, in freight, duty, carriage, and charges of all forts. Moni'.Andoury, aubergifle at the Trots Rots , with whom I fettled a correfpondence, mightfend me good wine ; but not putting it into a double barrel, which he promifed, itcame to me much too weak; for the vin de Cahors is full bodied as port, but muchbetter. A barrique I had alfo of another fort of wine, from the Chev. de Cheyron,near Leyborne; and, for want of being cafed, it turned out fuch poor (luff, that it ishardly good enough for vinegar. Without double cafing (and with it, for what Iknow) wines, on a private account , are tapped and filled up with water.
Ventillac. —See them, for the firft time in going fouth, ploughing between the rowsof vines, at five feet and five and a half feet afunder.
Noe. — Ox-hoeing the vines on a plain; each ox walks on an interval, with a rowbetween them ; and yoked with a Aiding yoke, to vary the diftance from ox to ox.Many young plantations of vines.
Rousillon.— Pia. —Vineyards not reckoned profitable, on land that will do w r ellfor other produdls : a minatre (twelve hundred Cannes , about forty thoufand feet),from five to ten charges, each one hundred and twenty-eight bottles, or pints of Pa-ris . Good wine, of laft vintage, 6 livres to 10 livres the charge; but old at 72livres.
Sejean. —The charge contains fixty pots, and weighs three hundred and fixtypounds ; five charges the muid, and the muid four tonneaux of Bourdeaux ; price 10livres, or 12 livres the charge ; freight from Cette to Dunkirk, 50 livres 1 of. the ton,and 20 f. gratification; duty on export 7 livres.
Beziers. —Vineyards planted by Abbe Rozier , four feet four inches by three feetten inches, but not regular; fet in a deep foffe, and covered with flints only.
Meze. —New vineyards planted in all parts. A feteree, in a common year, givestwo muids, or four tonneaux ; five hundred and feventy-fix pots to the muid, or fevenhundred and fixty-eight bottles, each a Paris pint. Four tonneaux of wine give onequintal of brandy, which fells, atprefent, at 122 livres i?f. the quintal. Produce inmoney 96 livres (81. per Englifh acre), labour exclufive ; vintage 15 livres (11. 6s. perEnglifh acre). Examined a vineyard, planted one thoufand two hundred and fiftyplants per feteree ; they were four feet nine inches one way, by four feet fix inchesthe other ; each plant therefore occupied 2i T s T 4 T feet fquare : rejecting the fraction,there would be two thoufand and feventy-three in an Englifh acre ; thus the fetereeis fomething better than half an acre. They are worked twice a year by hand; theexpence 1 5 livres the feteree: the cuttings pay the expence of taking. Taille 30/^and making the wine 20/I the muid; common price of the wine 24 livres the ton-neaux.
Pijan. —Produce 1 \ muid per feteree, at 50 livres fix hundred and forty bqttles,or 2 f. the bottle. Within two leagues, Frontignan , fo famous for its mufcat wines, afeteree of land has there yielded 300 livres, and half as much in a common year.Montbafin is alfo noted for its mufcats, which fells as dear as thofe of Frontignan :three barriques make one muid, or fix hundred and forty bottles : price in a commonyear, embarked at Cette, 300 livres : the red wine of Montbafin, 100 livres the threebarriques.
To Nimes ,—Several thoufand acres of vines on a level plain.
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