1892 Drinks of the world

FRENCH WINES.

— Its Manufacture

— Bottling

The Great Makers of Champagne

— Bordeaux or Claret

— Its early Use and Name — White Wines of the

Treatment Whence it

— The different Growths

comes

— Different Growths and Qualities

— Other

— Burgundy

District

Wines.

Champagne. RKIMS ^nd Epernay are the two great centres of the Champagne district ; but Reims, from its size and antiquity, must be considered its capital. Here are the estabHshments of Pommery & Greno, Ernest Moy, Theophile Roederer & Co., Louis Roederer & Co., Henriot & Co., Permet & Fils, De St. Marceaux & Co., Werl6 & Co. (successors to the renowned Veuve CHquot), Heidsleck & Co., De Lossy & Co., G. H. Mumm & Co., Jules Mumm & Co., Piper & Co., and many others of lesser note. The wines of this district have, for centuries, been famous, and especially beloved of kings and potentates.