1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

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Sparlcling Saurnur and Sparlcling Sauternes.

turesque dovecote, massive at the base as a martello tower, and!. having an elegant open stone lantern springing from its bell– shaped roof. The cellars are entered down a steep incline under– a low stone arch, the masonry above which is over grown with ivy in large clusters and straggling creeping plants. We soon come upon a deep recess to the right, wherein stands a unique– cumbersoine screw-press, needing ten or a dozen men to work the unwieldy_capstan which sets the .Juice flowing from the– crushed grapes into the adjacent shallow trough. On our left hand are a couple of ancien.t r eservoirs, formed out of huge blocks of stone, with the entrance to a long_vaulted cellar :filled with wine in cask. We advance slowly in the uncertain light along a, succession of gloomy galleries with 'IDoisture oozing from their blackened walls and roofs, picking our way between bottles of wine stacked in huge square piles and rows of casks ranged in tiers. Suddenly a broad flood of light shooting down a lofty shaft throws a Rembrandtish effect across a spacious and most melodramatic-looking cave, roughly hewn out of the rock, and

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