Tasting Collection

poster for Pernis, Super Anis (a beverage made, and tasting, of aniseed) Date: 1923

WINE TASTING, 1820
Wine tasting : assessing a fresh shipment newly arrived at the London Docks, Date: 1820

Wine expert at Tanners Wine Merchants, Shrewsbury
A wine expert with a glass of claret in the old shop of Tanners Wine Merchants, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The company was established in 1842 by sea captain William Tanner

Cover design, Over 120 Ways of Using Bread for tasty and delightful dishes. Showing a woman in her kitchen, enjoying some of the results of her baking. Date: circa 1940s

Silhouette, To Have a Finger in the Pie
To Have a Finger in the Pie -- silhouette of a man in a tall hat (probably a chef) tasting a pie

Tea Tasting 1930S
Miss Margaret Irving, pictured in her London tasting office, was the only woman tea taster in Britain and an authority in London as a connoisseur of all blends of tea

Portrait, Maison Ruinart, Reims, Marne, France
Portrait of Nicolas Ruinart, founder of Maison Ruinart in 1729, in the tasting room at Maison Ruinart, the oldest champagne house in the world, founded in Epernay in 1729 by Nicolas Ruinart

Champagne, Maison Ruinart, Reims, Marne, France
Bottles of Ruinart Blanc des Blancs and Ruinart Rose, in the winery at Maison Ruinart, the oldest champagne house in the world, founded in Epernay in 1729 by Nicolas Ruinart, in Reims, Marne

Champagne de Venoge, Epernay, Champagne, France
Tasting terrace at the Hotel de Venoge, built 1899, now Champagne de Venoge, on the Avenue de Champagne in Epernay, Champagne, Marne, Grand Est, France

Russia - Tsar Nicholas II aboard L'Etendard, in Finland
Tsar Nicholas II, aboard L'Etendard, in the Fjords, Finland, tasting the sailors food. Date: circa 1910

Advert, Blue Cross Pekoe Souchong Tea from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Date: 1891

Advert, Mazawattee Tea Co, 49-51 Eastcheap, London Date: 1891

Campaign for Real Ale event
Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) event, 6 September 1976. CAMRA was set up in 1971 because of dissatisfaction over the general quality of beer being marketed by a small number of breweries who were

Tasting tea, China. 1888

Tasting room, United Kingdom Tea Company, London
One of the tasting rooms of the United Kingdom Tea Company Limited, London, with various members of staff at work. Date: circa 1890

Plate and tasting dish from Rorstrand, Sweden, 18th century, decorated with botanical paintings and floral pattern. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French

Pedro Domecq cellars, Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain
Scene in the Pedro Domecq cellars, Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain -- men holding glasses of wine, with a pyramid of five hundred litres of Napoleon Amontillado Sherry. Date: circa 1920s

Wine Tasting

MONK WINE CELLAR 14 CENT
A monk drinking in a wine-cellar Date: 14th century

Aboriginal Children
Young boy tasting his girls pie. Hilda Dix Sandford illustrated these children on a visit to Australia circa 1908. Date: circa 1908

Hungry Peter the pig cooks for a party, watched through the window by the naughty dogs Rags and Forager who are worried that they won t be invited. Date: 1914

The Modern Boy front cover - Naval
Taking their Christmas medicine. Front cover of The Modern Boy magazine featuring a photograph of two naval cadets on board a training ship tasting the mixture for a Christmas plum duff. Date: 1932

The Empire Cookery Book - Glamorous woman tastes some soup. Date: 1920s

Children of the year. September
Young girl in long white chiffon dress & bonnet, looking out to sea from the shore.Date: 1901

Cookery school
A young ladies school of cookery in Tremont Street, Boston, United States Date: 1880

Wine Tasters
A party of students of the International Distillers and Vintners School of Wine, sampling a range of Beaujolais. Date: late 1970s

Blindfolded Wine Tasting
Guess the vintage : a lucky blindfolded woman gets to taste six bottles of wine in a cellar lined with bottles of wine! Date: early 1930s

Wine Tasting Session
Guess the vintage : a lucky young woman gets to taste six bottles of wine in a cellar lined with bottles of wine! Date: early 1930s

The progression of romance in five senses - French Style - from initial sighting to the bedroom in five simple steps! Seeing - Hearing - Smelling - Touching and... Tasting! Date: circa 1910s

Tea Tasting at Matheson, McClaren & Co. Edinburgh. Date: 1909

Strasbourg Wine Tasters
Men doing a spot of Sunday wine-tasting in their local cafe, an unusual change from their normal beer drinking; Strasbourg, France. Date: 1930s

Wine Tasting 1960S
Tourists enjoying a traditional wine tasting ceremony at Oberwesel, Germany. Date: late 1960s

TEA TASTER
Miss Margaret Irving, pictured in her London tasting office, was the only woman tea taster in Britain and an authority in London as a connoisseur of all blends of tea. Date: circa 1930

Gent Wine Tasting
A distinguished man wine tasting. Date: 1950s

Strawberry Tasting in a Shop
A man covers a womans eyes with his hands while feeding her a strawberry; the gentleman with the punnet of strawberries stands at the open door

Chef Tasting Food
A chef in a chefs hat tastes some soup or other food from a ladle

Housewife Cook Tasting
A housewife tastes one of her creations with a spoon, wearing a frilly apron, and standing in an immaculate kitchen

Tasting the Soup
Lady lightly blows on the soup before testing it from the pot

Tasting Order at Docks
Wine is tasted straight from the barrel at the London docks

Wine Tasting in London
A tasting order at London docks

Wine-Tasting
A very smartly dressed gentleman tasting fine wines and champagne

Champagne Liebig 6
Tasting the new vintage in the cellars at Reims card 6 of 6

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