Identifier: oldmexicoherlost1883bish (find matches)
Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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scale. The contents are lifted to anupper story, put into a hopper, where the stems comeoff, and the grapes fall through to a crusher. They arelightly crushed at first. It is something of a discoverythat the earliest product of grapes of every hue is whitewine. The red wine gets its hue from the coloring mat-ter in the skins, which are utilized in a subsequent rudersqueezing. I shall not enter upon all the various processes—theracking off, clarifying, and the like—though, so much inthe company of those who spoke with authority and werecontinually holding up little glasses to the light witha gusto, like figures in popular chromes, I considermyself to yield in knowledge of such abstruse mattersto none. Immense upiight casks, containing a warm,audibly fermenting mass, and others lying down, neatlyvarnished, with concave ends, are the most salient feat-ures in the dimly lighted wine-cellars. They are not cellars, properly so called, either, since THE VINTAGE SEASON, AND MONTEREY. 861
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BOTTLING CHAMPAGNE AT SAN FRANCISCO. 362 OLD MEXICO AXD HER LOST PROVINCES. they are wholly above-ground. The casks rest onwooden sills upheld by short brick posts. In tlie cellarsof General Naglee, a successful maker of brandy on alarere scale, the cobwebs have been allowed to increaseand hang like tattered banners. Through these the lightpenetrates dimly from above, or with a white glare froma latticed window, upon which the patterns of vine-leaves without are defined. The buildings are brown,gray, and vine-clad, with quaint, Dutch-pavilion-lookingroofs, and dove-cotes attached. A lofty water-tank, witha wind-mill—a feature of every California rural home-stead—here is more tower-like than usual. Round about extend long avenues of eucalyptus, pine,tamarind, with its black, dry pods; the pepper-tree, withits scarlet berries; large clumps of the noixil cactus, andan occasional maguey, or century-plant. All is glowingnow with the tints of autumn. Poplar and cottonwoodare yellow. The

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