1911 Beverages de luxe

candie light, saine as candling eggs, to separate the defective bottles. The defective bottles are those from which the sédi- ment lias not completely disappeared, or with pièces of cork, etc. After this process the bottles are ready to be dressed up for inarket with a fancy cap or foil, handsome labels, and wrapped in neat tissue paper, to be cased np in cases of twelve bottles or twenty-four half bottles, and usually sell at §12.00 and $14.00 per case, np to $22.00 and $24.00 per case. One Ohio firni commanding the price of $22.00 and $21.00 per case for one of their brands, and $11.00 and $16.00 for another. American Champagnes or sparkiing wines are coming to the front very rapidly, owing to many reasons, viz : American pnsh and enterprise; the American article lias a natnral bou- qnet of its own, given it by the grape, and not added as in the iniported article ; the eifervescense is snperior, and the methods used are identicaL; and last, but not least, the différence in price at which the two articles are sold. The iniported article costs no more to prodnce than the home prodnct, but with $9.60 duty added, $2.00 consnlar fees, $1.00 transportation, and $10.00 at least added by the lavish way in which they are boomed, pins the original cost of §9.00 per case for twenty-four half bottles, and the amount of $31.60 is completed, about the average cost of the iniported article. The above short pernsal on the production of Champagne covers it in gênerai, but the fact mnst not be overlooked that the real work occupies a space of time of tvo and one-half to three years, and each bottle is handled from 160 to 210 tinies, and has been under the diligent care of careful supervision contin- ually; and the easiest and most pleasing opération is the last, that of popping the cork to the ceiling, and toasting ail your friends to a long life and a merry one.