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Paper providing instructions on fining, or clarifying and stabilising, wine from Malaga, Spain. Holloway states that a quart of sheep's blood should be added to a quarter cask of dry Malaga wine, then the cask should be rolled and allowed to stand for eight days.

Subject: Industry / Winemaking

Read to the Royal Society on 8 February 1698.

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CLP/10iii/38
Earliest possible date
1698
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, how to fine Malaga wine by Nicholas Hollway [Holloway], 1698, CLP/10iii/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10iii_38/paper-how-to-fine-malaga-wine-by-nicholas-hollway-holloway, accessed on 18 January 2026

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