1895 Mixed Drinks by Herbert W Green

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experiment, however, it would it be like tossing up a coin and crying head or tail. "One set of cellars in Reims much resembles another. There is, however,something peculiarly cap tivating to the imagination in the larger and loftier vaults of the great House of Pommery. Here the eye is appealed to much more than in the galleries of Messrs. Heidsieck. There is no electric lighting, but the daylight descends in places down huge yawning shafts pierced in the chalk. The Romans are said to have begun these useful excavations in Reims, and Messrs.Pommery and Greno have much improved upon their freehold of old Rome's labors. The number of bottles here may be two or three times as many as in Heidsieck's cellars. It is impossible to give an exact account. There are miles ofthem,with from 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 bottles by the wayside, and between 500 to 600 men and women to attend to them. "Bearing in mind the vastness of the supply, it does not seem that the champagne makers of Reims act with imprudent generosity in oftering as they do bottle after bottle of their choicest wine to their casual visitors. It is,however,an act of very precious courtesy. Thus, having in the morning drunk a bottle and a half of Dry Monopole,I was privleged in the afternoon to