1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

Clumnpagne and Other Spa1·kVing Wines.

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At "'Fisse, Thlrion, and Co.'s, .after the wine ha.s been dis– gorged and liqueured, the corks are secured neither with string nor wire, but a special metal fastener is employed for the purpose. This consists of a triple-branched agrafe, provided with a kind of hinge. A tiny toy needle-gun suspended to the agrafe is pulled outwards and turned over the top of the bottle, whereupon the fastening becomes instantly disengaged, and any– thing like trouble, uncleanliness, or annoyance is entirely avoided. The operation is so ea.sy that a mere child can open a bottle of champagne, secur~d by this patent fastener, as easily and rapidly as a grown-up man. The firm of Fisse, Thirion, and Co. succeeded that of Fisse, Fraiquin, and Go.-established originally at ·Reims in 1821-in ·1864, when the bxand of the house was ah·eady well known on the Continent, more especially in Belgium and Holland. Since that time the wines have been largely introduced into Eng– land and the United States, and the firm, who have secured medals at many of the recent exhibitions, to-day have agents in the English and Dutch Indies and the various European settle– ments in China. Several descriptions of wine are shipped by the house, the finest being their dry Cuvee Reservee and their fragrant soft-tasting Cachet d'Or.