1895 Mixed Drinks by Herbert W Green

MIXED DRINKS.

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be able to compare it with Pommery's '1884.' Tbis is the date of the last good champagne year. The cel larer (who is a gentleman of standing,for all his blue smock) has no doubt of your verdict as he pours the aromatic fluid into your glass. It is as clear as spring water, and the color of a sulphur crystal. The bottles thus opened for the tourist may,I suppose, be counted by the thousand annually. But it is enough to remem ber the historic ravaging of the cellars of M. Moet of Epernay during the Revolutionary wars to realize that good may come out of such apparent sacrifice. The Russians relieved M. Moet of about 600,000 bottles. That would of course have ruined a small man; but M. Moet could afford to wait, and soon after the war he found that he received twice as many orders from Russians before. That immeasurable country contin ues to be a valued client both in Epernay and Reims—• though it is not reputed to be the best of judges between genuine and fictitious champagne. There"are other names to conjure with here within sound of the bold bells of the cathedral besides Heid- sieck and Pommery; but they need not be enumerated. They are at least as well known as the names of certain crowned heads of the Eastern Hemisphere. Are they not on every wine list throughout the world, and have