1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

VIN'l'AGE SCENE I N Tll:E UNl TElJ S'L'A'l'ES.

XIX.-THE SPARKLING WINES OF THE U NITED STATES.

E arliest Efforts at Wine-Mtiking in Americn- Fa.ilures to Acclimatise European Vines -Wines Made by the Swiss Settlers and the Mission Fathers -The Yield of the ll'Ii~sion Vineynrds-The Monster Vine of the Moute– cito Valley -The Catawba Vin e ancl its General Cultivation - Mr. Longworth one of the Founders of Aroerican Viticulture-Fresh Attempts to make Sparkliug Wine at Cincinnati-Existing Sparkling Wine Manu– factures there-Longfellow's Song in Praise of Catmvba-The Kelley I sland Wine Company-Vintaging and Treatment of their Sparkling Wines-Decrease of. Consumption-The Vineyards of Hammondsport– Varieties of Grapes used for Sparkling Wines-The Vintage- After– Treatment of the Wines-The Pleasant Valley a,nd Urbana Wine Com– panies and their Various Brands-Californian Sparkling Wines-'l'he Buena Vista Vinicultural :society of San Francisco-Its Early Failures and Eventual Success in Manufacturing Sparkling Wines-The Vintage in California-Chinese Vintagers-How the Wine is Made-American Spurious Sparkling Wines. FROM the earliest period of the colonisation of America the vine appears to have attracted the attention of the settlers, and