1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

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Oha!mpagne and, Other Sparkling Wines.

will undergo their final manipulation. The cellars consist of two stories, the lowermost of which has an iron gat e communicating with the ravine already mentioned. On passing out here and looking up behind we see the buildings perched some hundred feet above us, hemmed in on every side with budding vines. The church of Hautrulers and the remains of the neighbour– ing abbey are situated at the farther extremity of the village, at the end of its one long street, named, pertinently ·enough, the Rue de Bacchus. Passing through an unpret entious gateway we find o.urselves in a spacious courtyard, bounded by buildings– somewhat complex in character. On our right rises the tower of the church with the remains of the old cloisters, now walled– in and lighted by small square windows, and propped up by heavy buttresses. To the left stands the residence of the bailiff, and beyond it an 18th-century chateau on the site of the

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