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a criterion of goodness. Wine-ageing apparatus. In the time of the Roman Emperor Probus, about the close of the third century, great attention was paid to the cultivation of the vine; it is supposed to have been planted on the banks of the Rhine, the Main, and the Moselle at that time, and to have been introduced into Britain. About the close of the tenth century, wine in considerable quantity and, it is said, of excellent flavor, was produced in England in the counties of Lincoln, Gloucester, and Somerset. The importation of foreign wines into England commenced soon after the Norman Conquest, and was greatly increased by the acquisition of Guienne, under Henry II. In the reign of Richard II, Spanish wines were common, and continued to grow in estimation, especially sack, which is the produce of the grape of Xeres, in Spain. Holingshed asserts that there were upward of eighty-six different kinds of wine imported from France and other countries into England in the sixt