1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

DEVICES FROM THE COMMANDERIE AT REIMS .

VI.-THE REil\IS CHAMPAGNE ESTABLISHMENTS.

Messrs. Werle and Co., successors to the V euve Clicquot-Pousardin-Their Offices and Cellars ou the site of a Former Commanderie of tbe Tamplars -Origin of the Celebrity of Madame Clicquot's Wines- M. Werle and his f'on-The Forty-five Cellars of the Clicquot-Werle Establishment-Our Tour of Iuspection-Iugenious Liqueuring Machine -An Explosion and its Consequences- M. Werle's Gallery of Paintings-Madame Clicquot's ltenaissance House and its Picturesque Bas-reliefs-The Werle Vine– yards and Vendirngeoirs-M. Louis Roederer's Establishment-Heidsieck and Co. and their Famous "Monopole'' Braud-The Firm Founded in the Last Century - Their various Establishments Inside and Outside Reims– The Matured Wines Shipped by them. THE cellars of the great champagne

manufacturers of Reims are scattered in all directions over the historical old city. They undermine its narrowest and most insignificant streets, its broad and hanc• some boulevards, and on the eastern side extend to its more distant outskirts. Mes1n-s. Werle and Co., the successors of the famous Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin, have their offices and cellars on the site of a former Commanderie of the Temp–

lars in au ancient quarter ofthe city, and strangers passing by the spot would scarcely imagine that under their feet hundreds of busy hands are incessantly at work, disgorging, dosing, shaking, corking, storing, wiring, labelling, capsuling, waxing, tinfoiling,