Excerpt from The Blood of the Grape: The Wine Trade Text Book

These are instances of "Liquor Traffic, " an opprobrious term which censorious and sanctimonious hypocrites are so anxious to apply to our honourable trade, wilfully ignoring that the difference between the two is as wide as between the boon that is a bright fire in the grate and the curse that are the fierce flames devouring the main staircase of a house.

You have nothing to do and I hope that you never will have anything to do with any "Liquor Traffic" or "Drink Trade." You belong to the "Wine Trade, " a very ancient trade which has flourished in all parts of the world since the earliest days of civilisation, a trade which has never been carried on successfully without both ability and means, a trade which necessitates much capital, more knowledge and the most scrupulous honesty.

The Romans, during their occupation of Britain, were probably the first to import wine in this country from the Continent, but no documentary evidence of the existence of the English wine trade has as yet come to light earlier than the fifth century.

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