1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

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Sparl.:ling S auniiir cmcl Sparkling S aidernes.

undulating and picturesque. Poplars and elms fringe the road– sides, divide the larger fields and vineyards, and screen the cosy– looking red-roofed farmhouses, which pxesent to ~he eyes of the passing tourist a succession of pictures of quiet rurnl prosperity.

Chateauneuf communicates with the Sauternes district by rail, so that supplies of wine from there are r eadily obtainable. Vin de Colombar-a famous white growth which English · ancl Dutch cruiser s used to ascend the Charente to obtain cargoes of when the J erez wines were shut out from England by the Spanish War of Successio~-vintaged principally at Montignac– l e-Coq, also enters largely into Messrs. Normandin and Co.'s sparkling sauternes cuvrfe. This colombar grape is simply the semillon-one of the leading varieties of the Sauternes district– transported to the Oharente. The remarkably cool cellars