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Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines · Henry Vizetelly — chapter 20 of 20 · ~555 words · public domain

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PLEASANT VALLEY WINE CO., Hammondsport, N.Y. Great Western (Dry and Extra Dry) Carte Blanche Pleasant Valley Paris Exposition

URBANA WINE CO., Hammondsport, N.Y. Gold Seal (Extra Dry) Gold Seal Imperial Royal Rose

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The subjoined corrections are necessary in the following brands (See pages 226 and 227):--

FISSE, THIRION, & Co., Reims Stallard and Smith, 25, Philpot Lane, London Cachet d'Or. (Extra Dry and Medium Dry) / Cachet d'Or. Carte Blanche. (Dry, Medium Dry, and Rich) / Carte Blanche. Carte Noire. (Dry and Medium Dry). / Carte Noire. N.B.--The brand on the corks is an anchor instead of an eagle.

GIBERT, GUSTAVE, Reims. Cock, Russell, and Co.'s address is 23, Rood Lane, London.

GIESLER & CO., Avize. The corks of the firm's Extra Superior quality wine are branded "Extra Superior" on the side.

IRROY, ERNEST, Reims. The New York agent is F. O. de Luze, 18, South William Street, New York. W. E. Hepp is no longer M. Irroy's agent for New Orleans.

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The following are the correct brands of MM. de Saint-Marceaux & Co.:--

DE SAINT-MARCEAUX & CO., Reims Groves & Co., 5, Mark Lane, London Hermann Bätjer & Bro., New York Vin Brut Carte d'Or (Extra Dry) / Very dry. Bouzy Nonpareil (Dry) / Vin Sec. Carte Blanche (Medium) For America only. Dry Royal Second (Medium) Third (id.)

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Errata:

Missing or incorrect punctuation in the List of Brands has been silently regularized.

Expressions such as "132lbs." were consistently printed without space.

A number of words were printed both with and without umlaut. These have generally been left unchanged: Wurzburg / Würzburg Rudesheim / Rüdesheim Muller / Müller (also Siligmüller / -muller) Three occurrences of "Moët" were printed without dieresis. It has been silently supplied.

Table of Contents: II.--THE VINTAGE IN THE CHAMPAGNE. ... 20 last digit of page number invisible the future roues of the Regency accent on "roués" missing in original Baume's aerometer first "e" in "aerometer" illegible the Champenois winegrowers printed at midline without usual hyphen Chapter V, first page through "... the bulk of the new-made" left edge of text missing: manu/ture only just... (at line break) ds. ervoirs ... ng allowed ... ty-four gallons ... (number supplied from other passages) loosens the agrafe securing the cork, Bang goes the latter comma in original may be intentional from one to three per cent. of liqueur. text has comma for period St. Marceaux and Co.'s New Establishment text reads "Co.'" Those magnates of the champagne trade, Messrs. Moët and Chandon text reads "Mesrs." Messrs. Moët and Chandon give a banquet or a ball period (full stop) invisible resting familiarly on the maréchal's shoulder period (full stop) invisible bounded by trees and garden-plats text unchanged: probably correct the liqueur which Messrs. Giesler add so sparingly text reads "Griesler" [Illustration: THE CELLARS OF M. ACKERMAN-LAURANCE AT SAINT-FLORENT. LABELLING AND PACKING SPARKLING SAUMUR. (p. 150.)] opening parenthesis missing having composed at his mistress's table some doggrel rhymes spelling unchanged restored Stolzenfels, the historic Königs-stuhl text reads "Konigs-stuhl" vineyards of Bösing, Geñnau, and St. Georgen spelling unchanged Societa Unione Enofila accent missing in original cannot be gainsayed. spelling unchanged curaçoa spelling unchanged (two occurrences)

List of BrandsPOMMERY, VEUVE, Reims final "s" missing

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