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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 39, 17 February 1868, Page 2

All wine that even comes from Champague is by no means genuine. There are manufacturers there who fabricate wines from grapes never grown in the district which alone produces th-real fruit. These will sell their coucoctioos at three or four dollars a dozen, give ihem as jaunty a took in the bottle as the choicest Clicquot or Consular Seal, and call them by any name the purchaser may fancy within the limit of the law. The same artificers, of exhaustleas ingenuity, will make to order not only champagne, but wine and spirits of any kind and country. When consular agent at Rheims, I legalised many an advance of Madeira, sherry, port, fine old cognac, and the best Holland gin, and of all sorts of liqueurs, Chartreuse, Curacoa, ■and Kirsch, exported to theUuited States from Eperuay, by an expert manufacturer of that place. I had reason to believe that within his extensive premises he had I brought together the vinious powers of •production of the whole world, and could, without travelling beyond his own walls, snmmon at his call the rich cordial of the Alps, the fiery spirit of the Low Countries, the wine of the Cape, the liquor of the Antilles, or the products of any other quarter of the globe. In fact, it is no secret in Champagne that this ingenious and wealthy manufacturer, whose success ha been commensurate with his wondrous enterprise, has virtually abolished all the geographical divisions of the earth, and, recognising their diversity only in name and idea, produces within his own. enclosure a-Dy wine, spirit, or liquor a customer may demand. I know) by name his agent in the United States, and I would no more tkjpkof driukingof his vari-coloured bottles tfaanl wotild of thQse.:Of an apothecary's shop, A wntor.-iteUßui .ajk a printer's and aec«sed tfte^p^oeitQ/ of not having panctuated his poetoi, when the typo earnestly replied, ' I'm not a pointer— l'm a set- ' tor.'