1895 Mixed Drinks by Herbert W Green

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can voucli for tlie fact that they become distinctly nauseating after even two or three hours. "It is not the custom with the champagne mer chants of Reims to treat their employes as the tradi tional confectioner treats his apprentice. They do not in fact attempt to hreed in them a distaste for cham pagne. That I suppose was a crime of high treason against the majesty of the noble vine. In the premises of Pommery,indeed, it is the vogue to offer one glass of champagne daily to the persons employed." That taken before work begins,may well he thought to serve as an agreeable and useful stimulant to labor. But the common beverage in the cellars is a good,sound red wine, which is dispensed to the workers in no stinted measure. I am told that there are members of the fair sex at Heidsieck's (cork stampers, bottle markers, etc.) who dispose of four quart bottles of red wine during their ten hours of work. The men,too,are a thirsty race. Mme.Pommery is less lavish with her servants. She allows them a couple of bottles each in the day, which seems adequate. "Prom the ground floor of the spacious warehouse into which one enters from the inner courtyard of Messrs. Heidsieck's premises a shaft desends vertically about a hundred and fifty feet into the ground. It is