1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

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The Sparlcling Wines of Ge?·many.

Wurzburg by Herr F. A. Siligmilller in 1843. The wine from white grapes employed by him is vintaged partly in his own. vineyards on the Stein and the Harfe, and partly in other Main vineyards, at Randersacker, Escheradorf, &c:, the wine used by him from red grapes coming from the Baden Oberland around_ the so-called Kaisers-stuhl-an isolated vine-clad dolerite moun– tain bordering the Rhine, and 'on the verge ~lmost of the Black F orest-and from the neighbourhood of Offenburg, one of the ancient imperial free towns, which has lately raised a statue to– Sir Francis Drake, "the introducer," as the inscription says,. " of the potato into Europe." The vintage here, which com– mences fully a fortnight earlier than around Wii.l·zburg, usually takes place a.bout the beginning of October, and the wine is.. bottled in the h eight of the following summer. Herr Silig– muller's wines, of which there are four qualities, were awarded a.. medal for progress at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873.

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