Sir C G. Duffy has picked up at Home, and told in a lecture in Melbourne, the following morceau of trade information respecting Scotch and other champagnes :—" I learned from excellent authority in France this significant fact—that of the wines af that country ninety-five per cent, are drunk at home, and only five per cent, exported. When England, Russia, Germany, and the United States, the old established customers, are supplied, out of the limited exports, it is scarcely reasonable to hope that any considerable share of the five per cent, will find its way to us. I had another fact on the same authority, that '40,000 dozen of champagne are manufactured every month in Glasgow from petroleum.'" What gratifying intelligence this must be to our "light wine" and "champagne" drinkers..
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Evening Star, Issue 4164, 1 July 1876, Page 3
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130Untitled Evening Star, Issue 4164, 1 July 1876, Page 3
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