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    Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines
    Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines
    Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines
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    Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

    By Henry Vizetelly

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateSep 1, 2008
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      Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines - Henry Vizetelly

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling

      Wines, by Henry Vizetelly

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      Title: Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

      Author: Henry Vizetelly

      Release Date: March 24, 2007 [EBook #20889]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FACTS ABOUT CHAMPAGNE ***

      Produced by Louise Hope and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      THE DISGORGING, LIQUEURING, CORKING, STRINGING, AND WIRING OF CHAMPAGNE (Frontispiece)

      FACTS ABOUT CHAMPAGNE

      AND

      OTHER SPARKLING WINES,

      COLLECTED DURING NUMEROUS VISITS TO THE CHAMPAGNE

      AND OTHER VITICULTURAL DISTRICTS OF FRANCE,

      AND THE PRINCIPAL REMAINING

      WINE-PRODUCING COUNTRIES OF EUROPE.

      BY

      HENRY VIZETELLY,

      Chevalier of the Order of Franz Josef.

      Wine Juror for Great Britain at the Vienna and Paris Exhibitions of 1873 and 1878.

      Author of The Wines of the World Characterized and Classed, &c.

      WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS,

      DRAWN BY JULES PELCOQ, W. PRATER, BERTALL, ETC.,

      FROM ORIGINAL SKETCHES.

      LONDON:

      WARD, LOCK, AND CO., SALISBURY SQUARE.

      1879.

      Shorter Table of Contents

      added by transcriber

      THIS little book scarcely needs a preface, as it speaks sufficiently for itself. It is for the most part the result of studies on the spot of everything of interest connected with the various sparkling wines which it professes to describe. Neither pains nor expense have been spared to render it both accurate and complete, and the large number of authentic engravings with which it is illustrated will conduce, it is hoped, to its value.

      Uniform with the present work and the Author’s Facts About Sherry,

      FACTS ABOUT PORT

      AND MADEIRA,

      Including Chapters on the Wines Vintaged Around Lisbon

      and the Wines of Teneriffe.

      Illustrated with 80 Engravings from Original Sketches.

      CONTENTS.

      AND

      OTHER SPARKLING WINES.

      I.—The Origin of Champagne.

      The Early Vineyards of the Champagne—Their Produce esteemed by Popes and Kings, Courtiers and Prelates—Controversy regarding the rival Merits of the Wines of Burgundy and the Champagne—Dom Perignon’s happy Discovery of Sparkling Wine—Its Patrons under Louis Quatorze and the Regency—The Ancient Church and Abbey of Hautvillers—Farre and Co.’s Champagne Cellars—The Abbey of St. Peter now a Farm—Existing Remains of the Monastic Buildings—The Tombs and Decorations of the Ancient Church—The Last Resting-Place of Dom Perignon—The Legend of the Holy Dove—Good Champagne the Result of Labour, Skill, Minute Precaution, and Careful Observation.

      Strong men, we know, lived before Agamemnon; and strong wine was made in the fair province of Champagne long before the days of the sagacious Dom Perignon, to whom we are indebted for the sparkling vintage known under the now familiar name. The chalky slopes that border the Marne were early recognised as offering special advantages for the culture of the vine. The priests and monks, whose vows of sobriety certainly did not lessen their appreciation of the good things of this life, and the produce of whose vineyards usually enjoyed a higher reputation than that of their lay neighbours, were clever enough to seize upon the most eligible sites, and quick to spread abroad the fame of their wines. St. Remi, baptiser of Clovis, the first Christian king in France, at the end of the fifth century left by will, to various churches, the vineyards which he owned at Reims and Laon, together with the vilains employed in their cultivation. Some three and a half centuries later we find worthy Bishop Pardulus of Laon imitating Paul’s advice to Timothy, and urging Archbishop Hincmar to drink of the wines of Epernay and Reims for his stomach’s sake. The crusade-preaching Pope, Urban II., who was born among the vineyards of the Champagne, dearly loved the wine of Ay; and his energetic appeals to the princes of Europe to take up arms for the deliverance of the Holy Sepulchre may have owed some of their eloquence to his favourite beverage.

      The red wine of the Champagne sparkled on the boards of monarchs in the Middle Ages when they sat at meat amidst their mailclad chivalry, and quaffed mighty beakers to the confusion of the Paynim. Henry of Andely has sung in his fabliau of the Bataille des Vins, how, when stout Philip Augustus and his chaplain constituted themselves the earliest known wine-jury, the crûs of Espernai, Auviler, Chaalons, and Reims were amongst those which found most favour in their eyes, though nearly a couple of centuries elapsed before Eustace Deschamps recorded in verse the rival merits of those of Cumières and Ay. King Wenceslaus of Bohemia, a mighty toper, got so royally drunk day after day upon the vintages of the Champagne, that he forgot all about the treaty with Charles VI., that had formed the pretext of his visit to France, and would probably have lingered, goblet in hand, in the old cathedral city till the day of his death, but for the presentation of a little account for wine consumed, which sobered him to repentance and led to his abrupt departure. Dunois, Lahire, Xaintrailles, and their fellows, when they rode with Joan of Arc to the coronation of Charles VII., drank the same generous fluid, through helmets barred, to the speedy expulsion of the detested English from the soil of France.

      The vin d’Ay—vinum Dei as Dominicus Baudoin punningly styled it—was, according to old Paulmier, the ordinary drink of the kings and princes of his day. It fostered bluff King Hal’s fits of passion and the tenth Leo’s artistic extravagance; consoled Francis I. for the field of Pavia, and solaced his great

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