Handbook on viticulture for Victoria

Tür:

Kitap

Yayın yılı:

1891

Yayıncı:

R.S. Brain, government printer

which will be worth four times as much as another.This difference in price depends chiefly upon the quality of the wine, and often on the relative rather than on the absolute quality or, in other words, its suitability for the market which it is intended to command.At the present moment the market for Victorian and we may say for Australian wine is very indefinite.Every one admits that the London market is the one upon which we chiefly rely, and which we must use our best endeavours to satisfy.The production of wine in Victoria is so insignificant that up to this time we have not been looked upon as a wine source by the large London merchants.This, however, is correcting itself.The amount of wine which we shall in a few years produce will be very considerable, and it is absurd to suppose that every grower will then be his own wine merchant, maturing and retailing his wine, as he often has to do at present.Instead of this unsatisfactory state of things, there will be purchasers as soon as the fermentation is properly terminated and the wine is in a fit state to travel.Competition will bring about differences in price in favour of the most suitable wines, and the grower will naturally find that these are the most advantageous for his business.At present any well-made wine of moderate alcoholic strength is of pretty much the same value, but it is scarcely reasonable to suppose that this state of things will continue.In each district there will be one class of wine which will …

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