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Henderson Alexander

Dr. Alexander Henderson (1780-1863), a Scottish-born physician living in London, was the author of numerous important publications and, among other things, a contributor to the famous "Encyclopaedia Britannica". He visited the wine-growing regions of Italy, France and Germany and subsequently wrote the work "The History of Ancient and Modern Wines", which was published in 1824. In it, he compares the ancient wines with the wines of his time. Based on his medical expertise, the specific aspects of wine tasting are of particular importance in it. His evaluations of Bordeaux wines were included as one of the criteria in the Bordeaux classification of 1855. He was one of the first wine writers to try to bridge the gap between wine terminology, which only specialists could understand, and the limited knowledge of the general consumer. He remarked: "If we are told that a wine is penetrating, impermanent, volatile and so on, this is not at all useful. The only satisfactory and intelligible way of giving a description of wine is by comparing it with some other taste on which mankind at large is agreed." See also under wine speech and wine evaluation.

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