ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some points of special interest after the manner of Aristotle. And these points shall be: The colour of wine; the bigness and smallness of wine, and their respective excellences; the times most proper for drinking wine. As to this it is to be feared that some great ones have been too hasty and somewhat uncatholic in preference of red wine over white. Also the goodness of some white wines is so great that it were impious to regard them as in any way inferior. Robert Southey, one of the best of men and prose-men, and very far from the worst of poets, used to breakfast at Oxford on bread and cheese and red wine negus. The chapter concludes that wine is not exclusively or pre-eminently red; but that as other creatures were created male and female, so wine was created red and white.
