1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

Oha1npagne Establishn.•.enis at .Ay and Mareuil.

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A few paces beyond M. Duminy's we come "ijpon an anti– -quated, decrepit-looking timber house, with its ancient gable b ulging over as though the tough oak brackets on which it rnsts were at last grown weary of supporting their unwieldy b urthen. Judging from the quaint carved devices, this house -was doubtless the r esidence of an individual of some im– portance in the days when the principal European potentates bad their commissioners installed at Ay to secure them the iinest vintages. Continuing our walk along the same narrow winding street, we soon r each the establishment of Messrs. l3ollinger, whose house, founded in the_year 1829, claims fo b e the first among the Ay firms who shipped wines to foreign -

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