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WINES OF THE BRITISH

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 728 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRITISH See also:EMPIRE The See also:production of the British empire is very small, amounting to roughly 10 million gallons, and this is produced almost entirely in the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope and in the Australian See also:Commonwealth. At See also:present the See also:average vintage of the Cape and of See also:Australia is in each See also:case roughly 5 to 6 million gallons. In 1905 New See also:South See also:Wales produced 831,000, See also:Victoria 1,726,000, and South Australia 2,846,000 gallons respectively. The See also:trade of Australia with the See also:United See also:Kingdom is now considerable, having increased from 168,188 gallons in 1887 to 622,836 gallons in 1906. It is possible that the trade would grow much more rapidly than it has done if it were practicable to See also:ship the lighter varieties of wines. These, which would be suitable for See also:ordinary beverage purposes, cannot as a See also:rule stand the passage through the Red See also:Sea, and it is therefore only possible to ship the heavier or fortified wines. It is doubtful, therefore, whether the products of the British Empire will ever displace See also:European wines in the United Kingdom on a really large See also:scale, for they cannot compete at present as regards quality with the finer wines of See also:Europe, nor, for the See also:reason stated, with the lighter beverage wines. The quality of the See also:wine produced in the Cape and in Australia has improved very much of See also:recent years, chiefly owing to the introduction of scientific methods of wine cultivation and of wine-making in much the same manner as has been the case in See also:California. The red wines of Australia, particularly those of South Australia, some-what resemble See also:French wines, being intermediate between See also:claret and See also:burgundy as regards their See also:principal characteristics. There are several types of See also:white wines, some resembling French Sauternes and See also:Chablis and others the wines of the See also:Rhine. It has been recognized, however, that it is impossible to actually reproduce the See also:character of the European wines, and it is now generally held to be desirable to recognize the fact that Australian and Cape wines represent distinct types, and to sell them as such without any reference to the European See also:parent types from which they have been derived.

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