Wine and wine countries : a record and manual for wine merchants and wine consumers / by Charles Tovey.

  • Tovey, Charles.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wine and wine countries : a record and manual for wine merchants and wine consumers / by Charles Tovey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prices, have met with a certain degree of success-— to some extent with the trade, especially in the smaller towns, but mainly with private families. It does not seem to be generally known in England that there exist in France and Germany, extensive manufactories of spurious wines. Many English merchants, especially in the interior, where means of obtaining accurate information as to the position of foreigners describing themselves as wine ship- pers are not readily available, have supposed that the fact of an importation from the wine-producing country sufficiently guaranteed that the wine itself was correctly designated. But such is by no means the case. With respect to Champagne, for instance, many of the so-called Champagnes brought to this country from France and Germany are fabri- cated wines. A writer, quoted in 1 Murray’s Hand Book for France,’ says :— ‘ ‘ ‘ The high price of genuine Champagne may be accounted for by the loss from breakage and the cost of preparing. So large is the demand now for tliis class of wines, that many of the wine districts make Mousseux wines in imitation, under the names of Sparkling Hock. Burgundy, and Moselle; and even in Hungary, they make and send eight millions of bottles annually to Bussia, which country consumes more than three times that amount from France. A large quantity of wine is made and sold as Champagne in France; and a company exists in Paris, Cette, and in many other towns, for this
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