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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4654, 21 February 1894, Page 3

PURE GRAPE BRANDY.

It is an astonishing thing with what perfect confidence the public of the Australasian Colonies Qccepts for granted the assurance that many of the articles of daily consumption are genuine produotg of the countries they are severally supposed to hail froit For instance, 'jt js a wellknown fact that the cigars which hundreds of people smoke, and pay a long price for 100, as genuine Havan> nah's are no more manufactured from Havanoah tobacco than is cheese made from chalk, The Island of Havannah barely grows enough tobacco for a yery limited European and American supply, so it is an utter impossibility in nine hundred abd ninety-nine cases out of a thousand for the genuine leaf to rcacji these polonies' at all.' Tho same remark apppes with much greater force to brandy. The Cognac district in Franca is only of very smajl extent, the yines are exceedingly lew and not many years ago what vines there were were devastated by Phylloxera. Now as brandy—tho genuine juice of the grape—has long been recognised in tbe profession for its medical properties it necessarily follows that the rank flavoured spirits in common use have really little or no medicinal properties. The facts are absolutely indisputable, as can be easily ascertained by anyone who will take the trouble to go in'o the matter; 1 The advent of a pure grape brandy of exponent quality madein in recent years placed in tjie markets of the world, should b'e hailed' with much satißfactjon.' We aljude ip Messrs Joshua Bros. Australian brandy which tho War Office has just reported on in such favourable terms. Messrs Joshua Bros, brandy has for some time past been very favourably known -in England, and " The Times," " Tbo Lancst," " The British Medical Journal," "The Liverpool' Courier,"'and the '(Pall Mall Gazette,"- have, we notice, published some highly flattering repprps. It follows t)?en that thp manufapture of pure grape brandy in the Oojnac district must of necessity be very limited, not sufficient in fact to supply local requirements, It is true that an immense amount of so-called cognac is exported every year from tho port of Ohurente, but do people ever consider how this precious spirit is obtained ? It is not too much to say that for every gallon of genuine oognac exported a thousand gallons of the spurious ertiole goes with it. Tliis f'brandy" is manufactured exclusively from potato spirit.' ft om maize, rice, barjey, turnips and, app|es, skilfully treated with chemically' prepared esr sencos in order to give it the desired i' cognao" flavour, In many instances the new spirit is manufactured in, the whisky distilleries in Scotland, imported into France and exported again as genuine brandy! The juice of the grape plays no part at all in tbe manufacture of brandies which arc in daily use, Opinions as to the quality of the brandy, From a medical point of view alone these opinions are of inestimable value, and should be known to tho profession throughout the colony. By tho expenditure of muolrpapital and by patient and' careful experiments, Messrs Jqsbua Ijros. have at last'been 1 able to prbjjace' a grape brandy which, WJI} morp than fayourab}y compare wifh the real cognac, 'and therefore if must surely be inestipabjy preferable to the vije concoctions, which a de" ludedpnbllo accepts asgonuinobrandy, and imports as such inlargeqnantities.

A PRETTY CONOEJT,

The onormous Bales ol the Watorbury' have led linns who do not care for a Bteady turnover at a legitimate profit to explore the purlieus of the Continent for oheap inferior ;." 'f™ "-W do not call them watoheswith which to 'run tho Waterbury,'' Th&e 1 possess one of showing the , dealef a retum'o! some iSD'jet cent/oh 1 ys