‘Irish Wine’

‘Dean Swift,’ says Mr. Healy, ‘writing to Stella on the 17th October, 1710, said: “I dined to-day with your Mr. Sterne by invitation and drank Irish wine.” His cousin puts a note to this that the author was referring to claret — the Dean nearly always named the wine he drank — but when he was associating wine with Ireland it is always of claret he is speaking.’

The following practical directions for serving this wine are given by Mr. Healy in a pamphlet on Irish wine that was printed for private circulation only, and these excerpts are made with his permission: