THE MANUFACTURE OF CHAMPAGNE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2496, 10 January 1887, Page 2

THE MANUFACTURE OF CHAMPAGNE.

We would have';.thought'that b ■■ • great proportion of 'our champagne comes from Amerioa ?.: ■The bottle* are French, the etiquette is good and rightly spelt, brand/is. all: right;' but' < not a drop of French vbtago,,«ntgft,'-'-ibfc-into the composition of tho ating drink, fiiis'all mado'oflh*' ~f. poor and acid juioe of tlio rhubMi.... replant, which the -British 1 hails with such hearty.welcome ■furnishing the-first'fresh • fruit'tf , ; -t spring for the table. 'f : :'' ' '5 A planterof Cormeeticiut galley ha* •:>; just received an order for two thousand' '•■ gaUoris-df rhubarb juice to, thei rwxeijl ,; with cider, and made iiito vFreneb',> .' champagne of; the best \ and most ■■' recherck brands. In oonsequence of. the publicity given to'this order, &n ; ■" , inquiry has -been instituted amongaii'-'" I the ohampagne growers of tho heigh* ! borhpod ofßHfeins, and has resulted,:... in the proof of- the large exportalioa; ' .. to America'oflabels andcorks, andtne.,'. ■ very small brie'indeed. of real cham. ?"'. pagne. -'- . What is mortifying to the Frerioh, 1 grower.is-the'fact of this •' ;>; Hquor>being evidently more to the'tasto'.j '. • i';(| of the Yankees than the genuine; ,$$ article. It already has its. distinctive ??"". qualities of' good, better, best,' and is' ' ; sold at prices accordingly.. .■;■":,■' ■ The superior kind oan be' manufac-' tared-at 2fd a bottle; the commony -' sort made with cidef ,and dried apples, : ■":■ '• without the rhubarji ; ;for: nlucfl , | : J The cheapest description of efevesplng fv? j matter is added to boto. T (qualities, ;and ". delivered to the great -houses to'bj=?spl4