1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

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The Sparkling Wines of Ge1·many.

BINGEN.

Rhine, and with it is mingled a certain quantity of wine vintaged on the H essian plain. The vintage genE:rally occurs at the end of October, and the firm remove the new wine to their cellars at Creuznach early in the ensuing spring, and bottle it in the May or June following. They make both dry and sweet varieties of spark– ling wines, and their principal markets are England, Germany, the E ast and W est Indies, the United States, and Australia. The establishment of G. C. Kessler and Co. at E sslingen– formerly one of the most important of the free imperial cities, and picturesquely situated on the Neckar-wn.s founded as far b ack as 1826, and claims to be the oldest sparkling wine factory in Germany . The wine employed comes from vineyards