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CHAMPAGNE FROM
attention to keep the wine continually in cool
places; nothing does it more hurt than heat: it is
therefore of the greatest importance to have good
cellars and excellent vaults. No part of the world
has so good vaults as those in Champagne, which
is the reason it is so difficult to find any where
else such good wines as those of this province.
Those who would lay up a stock of wine, and
are able to keep it two or three years, or whose
business it is to send it into other far distant pro¬
vinces, or to foreign countries, ought to choose
the Mountain wine; for as it has more body, it
will better bear transportation than those of the
River; and, besides, the English, the Flemings,
the Dutch, the Danes and the Swedes, desire
these strong wines, that can bear the transporta¬
tion, and hold good for two or three years, which
the River wines will not do
I now give you what Dr Macculloch’s views
of gooseberry wine are, page 186 “ The goose¬
berry is one of the fruits most commonly used,
and is, in particular, well known as an ingredient
in brisk wines, which are made to resemble, in
appearance at least, the wines of Champagne.
For this purpose it is used in an unripe state. It
is well known in the wine countries, that, inde¬
pendently of those causes of briskness in wines,
which consists in the management formerly de¬
scribed, this property always results from the use