1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

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gallons each, suitable for sparkling wine, beside.:; three or four hogsheads of inferior wine given to the workmen t o drink. The pressing commences daily at six in the morning, and lasts until midnight; yet the firm are often const rained to keep t heir grapes in the baskets under a cool shed for a period o'f two days. This r.annot, however, be done when they are very ripe, as the colour– ing matter from the skins would become ext racted and give a dark and objectionable tint to the wine. Messrs. G. H. Mumm and Co. ship four descript ions pf champagne-Car te Blanche, a pale, delicat e, fragrant wine of great softness and refined flavour; a perfe:::tly dry variety of the foregoing, known as their Extra Dry ; also au Extra Quality and a First Quality-both high-class wines, though somewh Lt lower in price than the two preceding. Within a few minutes' walk of Messrs. G. H. Mumm's~past the imposing Gate of Mar.:;, in the midst oflawns, parterres, and gravel-walks, where coquettish nursemaids and t heir · char ges stroll, accompanied by the proverbial z1iou-piou-is the principal establishment of M . Gustave Gibert , whose house claims t o-d