Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-01-30
From the Patent Office Report of 1856, p 304
On the Manufacture of Champagne Wine.


PONCE, OF MOUNT ZION, HANCOCK COUNTY,
AS have not noticed in the Patent Office Reports,
any information relative 10 making Champagne wine,
it is manuiactu: ed in France, it has occurred to
that the proper mode has not been adopted in the
United States The celebrated Catawba Champs gnes
of Ohio do not, as far they have come to my
knowledge, retain their efervescent quality so long
as those imported from abroad. have tasted some
two years old, which was quite sparkling while 9TH
ers at four years of age, when opened, were perfectly
still. l have also made some Champagne myself
which has been attended with the same result
The, following method of making Champagne as
pract1ced at Cha!ons sur-Marne, by M. Jaquesson
one of the largest manufacturers in France, may be
useful to those who are engaged in wine making in
this county,
When the fruit is gathered and pressed the juice
is exquisitely sweet, but few days this changed
by fermentation in the casks in which it is placed
When fermentation subsiGes, the wine is vapid and
very disagreeabe. 1t is then stopped, and fined to
as great degree of brightness as be obtained
before the boiling season, which is usually in March
following the vintage. When it is put up, second
fermentation is induced by putting into each bottle
SIR all glass Of what is called liquer" (sugar.candy
dissolved in wine and fined to brghtness) This fer
mentation produces fresh deposit of sediment, or
| lees, however bright the wine may be when bottled.
In this process, the greatest attention is necessary
and the bottles CLOSELY watched, the temperature
of the air being carefully regulated, to promote or
check the fermentation; yet thousands of bottles
plode, that at least 10 per cent is charged a
cost of manufactures in seasons OF great and sudden
heat, 20 or Is per cent. are broken When The wine,
after cOudng with fermentation, begins to deposit
| sediment, the bottles placed, with the necks
downward, in long beds shelves, having holes OBJ
quely cut in them, so that the bottoms are scarcely
raised. Every day lifts the end of each bottle,
and after slight vibration replaces it a little more
upright in the hole, thus deaohng the sediment from
the side, and letting pass towards the neck of the
| bottle. This is done for some ,ime until the bottle
is placed quite upright, and the sediment is entirely
deposited in the neck of the BOTTLE which is then
ready for disgogng." In this process, man holds
the bottle steadily, with the mouth downwards, be-
| fore recess prepared for the operation cuts the
wire, when the internal force drives cork and
with it the foul sediment The skill of the work
man is shown in bis preserving all the pure wine and
losing only the foul There is an understandable ma
nipulation in this. Another cork is ready to replace
that blown out, the bottle is filled with some previ
ously purified wine, and again stacked. second
disagreement is always necessary, when the wine is
prepared for sale; sometimes third. When ready
it is sweetened to suit the TASTE This preparation
is, in fact second Engagement. But the wine now
gets another dose of iqueur which is prepared with
great care and purity, of candy, dissolved in white
wine for the ordinary Champagne, and red wine fo
the pink and the coloring thus given is sufficient
The quantity put into each bottle depends on the mar
kst for which it is intended-generalIy good wine
gIassfu. This gives it the exquisite sweetness anC
aids it's quality for sparkling when opened 1t may
be added that in the last operation, the corks shoulC
be we'll compressed before they driven into tn
bottle.
The above was procured from friend, who lael
, travelled through the. Continent of Europe.
ArpRorR1ArE-Ths following is ''traveling :" youn
married lady whose union had not been prolific of te
Iings has suspended the wall in her bedroom, drec
over the head of the bed little picture underneath
which is the following quotation from Scripture Sufe
little children to unto and forbid them not for
such is the kingdom of Heaven"
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