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etc. Like all spirits it improves in quality when aged in wooden casks, but this does not carry on indefinitely. The time of ageing varies with the kind of brandy, and any brandy will commence to deteriorate or "get tired" as is said, after a certain amount of ageing in wood. It keeps indefinitely in tight bottles. Burgimdy is produced from the juice of grapes grown on very- chalky soil in the Province of Burgundy, France, which lies south of Paris. This wine is either white or red, and its alcoholic content ranges between 8 and 14% by volume. There are many types and bouquets according to the vintage, but the wines are universally dry (not sweet). The best come from the section of Burgundy known as Cote d'Or. (See Wine.) Calisaya is a type of bitters. It is of South American origin, and the bitter ingredient calisaya (from which it gets its name) is a kind of Peruvian bark of the cinchona family and contains quinine. (See Bitters.) Catawba Win© varies much in kind. It may be dry, sweet, still or bubbling. It is of domestic origin, beingmade from the juice of the Catawba grape, which is grown around Lake Erie. It is a light colored wine of high flavor. The grape was discovered in 1801 in this country. 'Chaimpagne is properly a white sparkling wine produced in the Champagne District of France. Its introducer was one Perignon, of the Abbey of Hautvilliers, in the 17th cen tury. To-day the name is used for other sparkling wines of warious colors and of other places. America, for instance, has made great progress in the art. The manufacture of 1:163