1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

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·or weighing down upon those below, and thereby crashing toge– ther. The larger engraving shows a wine-cellar fitted up entirely with Burrow's patent "slider' ' wine-bins, while the smaller repre– sents a bin adapted to laying down twenty dozens of champagne, and the dimensions of which are merely 5 feet 8 inches by 3 feet. From the subjoined t able it wfil. be seen that the consumption

OFFICIAL RETURN IlY THE CHAlllilER OF Co:lilIERCE AT REIMS OF THE '!'1ti1.DE IN CHAMPAGNE WINlfS FROM APRIL, 1844, TO APRIL, 1878.

Number of

Number of Total number Bottles sold iii of Bottles

Years, from April Manufac.

Bottles

turers' Stocks. Exported.

t o April.

Fmncc.

Sol d.

... 23,285,218 22,84,7,971 ... 18,815,367 ... 23,122,994 21,290,185 ... 20,499,192 ... 20,444,915 ... 21,905,47U ... 19,376,967 ... 17,757,769 ... 20,922,959 ... 15,957,141 15,228,294 ... 21,628,778 ... 28,328,251 35,648,12-1 .. . 30,235,260 30,254,291 ... 28,013,189 ... 28,166,975 ... 33,298,672 ... 34,175,429 ... 37,60R,716 .. . ... ... ... ... ... 39,984,003 ... 40,099,243 .. . 45,329,490 ... 64,658,767 ... 71,398,726 ... 70,183,863 . " 46,573,974 52,733,67 1 1 ... ... ... ... 37,969,219 32,490,881 39,272,562

4.,380,214 4,505,308 4,711,915 4,859,625 5,686,4.-84 5,001,04.4 5,866,971 5,957,552 6,355,574 7,878,320 6,895,773 7,137,001 8,4.90,198 7,368,310 7,666,63:l 8,265,395 8,488,223 fi,904,915 7,937,836 9,851,138 9,101,441 10,413,455 10,283,886 10,876,585 12,810,194 13,858,839 7,544,323 17,001,124 18,917,779 18,106,310 15,318,345 16,705,719 15,882,964

2,255,4.38 2,510,605 2,355,366 2,092,571 1,4.73,966 1,705,735 2,122,569 2,162,880 2,385,217 2,528,71U 2,4.-52,7'1.3 2,562,039 2,468,818 2,421,454 2,805,416 3,039,621 2,697,508 2,592,875 2,767,371 2,934,996 2,801,626 2,782,777 3,218,343 2,924,268 3,104,4·96 3,628,461 1,633,941 3,367,537 3,4.-64,059 2,491,759 3,517,182 2,439,762 3,127,991 2,450,983

184.4 - 45 J.845 - 46 184.6 - 47 18,J,7 - 4..S 1848 - 4·9 1849 - 50 1850 - 51 1851- 52 1852 - 53 1853 - 54 1854- 55 1855-56 1856 - 57 1857-58 1858 - 59 1859 - 60 1860 . 61 1861-62 1862 - 63 1863 - 64 1864 - 65 1865 . 66 1866 - 67 1867 . 68 1868 - 69 1869 - 70 1870-71 1871 - 72 1872 -73 1873 - 74 1874 - 75 1875 -76 1876 -77 1877 -78

6,635,652 7,015,913 7,067,281 6,952,196 7,160,450 6,706,779 7,989,540 8,120,4.'32 8,74.-0,790 10,407,039 9,348,5161 9,699,040 10,959,016 9,789.764 10,472,049 11,305,016 11,185,731 9,497,790 10,705,207 12,786,134 11,903,067 13,196,132 13,502,229 13,800,853 15,914,690 l 7,4'87,300 9,178,264 20,368,661 22,381,838 20,598,069 18,835,527 1.9,145,481 19,010,955 18,162,634

15,711,651