1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

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Champagne ancl Olhe?' Sparlcling Wines.

drawing upon them until they have attained the requisite maturity and developed a.11 their finer qualities. The dry sparkling hocks and moselles, such as are shipped by Herr Muller to England and its colonies, r eceive a large addition of liqueur when destined for the Russian market. His sparkling J ohannisberger and high-class sparkling moselle from Rheingau and Moselle wines of superior. vintages are of delicate flavour and great softness, and are frequently shipped without any liqueur whatever. Besides Moussirender Rheinwein of a champagne character, and largely consumed in Germany and Belgium, Herr Muller makes a veritable champagne f-J:om. wine imported by him from the Ohq,mpagne district. His shipments also include r eel sparkling Assmannshauser - the result of a blend of Assmannshauser, Ingelheimer, and other red Rhenish wines-aromatic ancl full-bodied, and dry or mode– rately sweet according to the country to which it is intended t<> be exported. The trade in German sparkling wines bas numerous r epre– sentatives at Mayence-the see of St. Boniface, the apostle of the Germans, and the birthplace of Gutenberg, whose fame is universal. The pioneer of printing was born in a house at the corner of the Emmerans and P fandhaus gasse, the site 1 of which is to-clay occupied by the r esidence of three members of the firm of C. Lauteren Sohn, established at Mayence so far back as 1794, and one of the first in Germany to devote itself to the manufacture of sparkling wines;... In 1830 the firm profited by an offer made to them by a cellarman who had been for many years in the service of Madame Olicquot at Reims. The– Emmerans-gasse, where the chief establishment of the firm is. situated, is in the older quarter of Mayence-in the midst of a network of intricate winding streets bordered by picturesque tall gabled houses and edifices of the Spanish type where ornamental oriel windows with quaint supports, medallions, and bas-reliefs. of varied design continually catch the eye, and saints look down upon one from almost every corner. Passing under the gateway of the house where Gutenberg was born, and in the r ear of