1895 Mixed Drinks by Herbert W Green

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MIXED DRINKS.

machine,but in some establishments it is still measured by band with a ladle. Saumur is another district of France which pro duces large quantities of sparkling white wine. It is situated in the department of Maine-et-Loire. These wines have been known for centuries, hut have been made effervescent only since 1834. The importation of champagne into the United States in 1893,from January 1 to October 1, amounted to 191,549 cases. The amount imported for a similar period this year was 159,330. One dealer imported two thousand cases more in 1894 than he did in 1893. Mr. Charles Edwards adds some interesting matter concerning champagne. « * * ^ producers of Dry Monopole have their offices in the Rue *de Sedan. I expected to find myself in an atmosphere elevating with the diffused bouquet of champagne. But the cellers of Messrs. Heidsieck are a considerable distance from their offices, and there was not so much as a cork visible in the place to hint at the nature of the business here so extensively conducted. Perhaps it is as well that it is so. It is said that the very fumes of the cellars sometimes prove too much for the head of a weakly man. And I myself