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Moet and Chandon similarly denotes the champagne brewed by the well-known French firm trading under the style of " Moet et Chandon. " Among concoctions of the vinous order we have Hippocras, so called because it is said to have been first made according to the recipe of Hippo- crates, the Father of Medicine ; Badminton, . Originally prepared at Badminton, the seat of the Duke of Beaufort; and NegUS, named after Colonel Francis Negus, who invented it. Formerly, our Wines. 129 countrymen set grea...t store by Sack, which was simply the designation of a dry wine, derived from the French word sec, dry. Wine is said to be a Dry Wine when it is neither sweet nor sparkling. It cannot be sweet because, the fermentation being complete, the sugar contained in it is fully decom- posed ; moreover, it is dry because the carbonic acid has escaped. For the like reason, a certain evidence that port wine has completed the process of fermen- tation is the alcohol precipitated on the sides of the bottle, and forming a crust ; hence the term Crusted Port.
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