Excerpt from Report of the Viticultural Work: During the Seasons 1883-4 and 1884-5, Being Appendix No; IV to the Report for the Year 1884; With Notes Regarding the Vintage of 1885-6 Importance of the initial temperature of must; Arrest of fermentation from crushing grapes while hot; The acetic fermentation; Favored by high temperature and access of air; Hence by "cap" of red wines; Impeded by high alcoholic strength; fortification; Wines naturally resisting acetification; Importance of cleanliness and sulphuring; "Pricked" wines the bane of California vintages; Conservation of wines; Well-made wines preserve themselves; Abundance of badly-made wines in Europe; Large vs. small wineries; Summary statement of causes of unsoundness in California wines; Use of antiseptics for preservation; Danger to health; "Unfermented wine"; Sulphuring; Pasteurizing should supersede all antiseptics; Apparatus for pasteurizing; Points in the fermentation of red wines; Comparative difficulty of red-wine making; Effects of unsound grapes; Rapidity of red-wine fermentation; rise of temperature; Exposure to air in open tanks; The "cap" the greatest source of trouble; Prevention of the "cap"; A. By "foulage"; B. By Perret's frames; Insufficiency and bad effects of using a single frame only; C. Use of floating cover, alone or with "foulage"; The protecting cover of carbonic gas; Its unreliability; Habitual neglect of precautions against "pricking"; Extract from a report on "Studies on Wine Fermentation," made to Viticultural Commission; General remarks; Publication of bulletins; List of grapes received at the Viticultural Laboratory in 1883; Descriptive list of wines made at the Viticultural Laboratory in 1883; Mataro; From Denicke, Fresno; Carignane, from same; Grenache, from same; Carignane, from J. P. Smith, Livermore; Grenache, from same; Mataro, from same; Discussion of the Six Preceding Wines (Bulletin No. 6); Zinfandel, second crop, Natoma W. and M. Co., white and red wines; Zinfandel, from F. T. Eisen, Fresno About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."