1937 Here is Something that will interest you (3 rd edition)

Champagne, Claret, Burgundy, Hock, Chablis .. here come the names dear to the lover ofvintages rich and rare; a cavalcade of history from the sunny vine- Let Us Consider clad hills of France, beneath _ which he in sleepy seclusion W i IN Jci toy red-roofed villages ... from the Rhineland, where pinnacled castles of fairy tale splendour look down upon those vineyards planted by the Romans somewhere about the second century, and later carried on by the monks ...where wines of fine quahty have been produced for centuries. Burgundy .. .from the sun-drenched slopes of the Cote d'Or,wine ofkingly red and exquisite bouquet .. nowadays one ofthe most popular oftable wines in the Enghsh home. Burgundy was introduced into the British Isles in the year 1512 by Louis XII of France who, by way of a graceful comphment,sent a painted ship containing a rich cargo of this wine in puncheons to James IV of Scotland. Connoisseurs will gratefully toast the memory of such a monarch and a happv thought ... Champagne ... a blithesome wine, sponsored first in this country by a blithesome king, Charles II. And so we could go on ... tracing a finger over the map ofhistory to find the tendrils ofthe vine delicately curling around the court and social life of a dozen centuries. But let us instead (this being a guide and not a history book) proceed to survey each and all of the more important and familiar wines offormal and informal occasions. BURGUNDY comes from the Cote d'Or, a district of thirty odd miles in length, l5ting between Dijon and Chalon-sur-Saone, and many beautiful wines of famous^ vintages have emanated from this bountiful district of France, and have been,and still are, much appreciated by all wine connoisseurs