The New York herald., 1879-11-23

year. but In the good years II is about 4000f tun
ana part OF the vintage often fetches ool. @ Some
years nave sold for 60O0f. and partially Tor
but there have been years when the general price
only reached l.000f.. l.A0Of., L7G0f 2.0O0f 2oool
,na ssl S.or The best years were 1852 lsoi iso?,
io's ana 1910 The year 1878 was excellent, out ~
has not yet been sold. ON the contrary. the year
isoo was OF wretched quality and did not sell Tor
!Vt The year 1877 is poor and 1879 is still poorer.
lS4I. however. had curious history In the autumn
or lS49 business dull money scarce and the vint.
s6t see oeng declared interior the crop was sold as
ooi. tun. little later politics were quiet husi-
ness revived, and discovered that the Chateau
iquem OF ls41 was the best wine the vineyard had
tine. passing through Bordeaux. bought one of the
Few remaining barrels for rs 00O and in 1874 at an
about 900 bottles fetched 5Of and 52f. a bottle.
The vineyards cover about ninety hectares and be-
long to the Marquis do Lur saluces. who lives two
Kilometres further at the Chateau Filhot. where
there is also good wine Chateau Yquem is an
almost uninhabitabe CASTLE one front as old as the
thirteenth century but place built for defence, not
forstyle. The terrace ands q Charming view OF
the bend of the Garonne from St. Macare and Cadil.
the trac on the formerly intercepted
are spread like carpet on the gentle slope round
the castle. different shade of green distinguishing
then from neighooring vineyards. This year the
quantity is abundant but the quality poor and the
bottles which leave tho cellar will not bear the
tion.
DIsAsTnous CHAMPAGNE YEAR
In Champagne. ut the other end OF France. disas-
ter has occurred unparalleled for sixty years. Not
bottle of wine has been harvesed the loss is terri
BILE for the small grower and mounts up to 25 OOOf.
or 0OOOf. for tho whole department. The grape
did not ripen. and 1t has been gathered only
in order to prevent trespassers from enter-
ing the vineyards and damaging them. There is
stock Of 72.0O0O00 bottles in Cham
payne. OF which 35.MOOO0 or 40, 100000 arc
in the hands of the great firms. The remainder is
OF doubtful origin and even beyond the producing
area OF Champagne but this year wines which had
long been drug in the hands Of specuators will be
bought up. tor everybody breads the consequences
of blank year. The expectation Of real champagne
Is eighteen twenty million bottles year, that
the existing stock will have to 1880 and 1884,
and will just suf1ce. Should next years vintage
fail the houses which sell genuine champagne would
be reduced. to the expression of one them. to
risen. Tho frat class houses, Werle who has the
Veuve Cucquot mark; Rjderer. long in repute;
Pommery and Greno. also commanding
fdeuce and celebrity; Yroi who has
enormous extent of the best vinsy ards-Mo1t,
popular the Continent and others
OF tho department standing out against rise in
price in order not to the circle Of consumers.
Werle has threc four million bottles R0derer
many. Pommery ard Grenc rather less. also Yroi.
but Moet is said to have Ave six millions, and all
these firms NEE. orders for 1880 and 1881. and
prices. SO rs to be guided by it. The consumers.
however will perhaps force Them to raise the price.
for, during last MONTH orders have been doubling
all hands. especially from England. whore
scarcity Of champagne is apprehended. There is at
present however cause for alarm. for all depends
next years vintage, and buyers ehould not give
way to q panic or they will force the Rheims Arms
once raised. will be kept up.
r. S.--The Giroude vintage Is over. The quantity
will not be fourth that Of an ordinary year, and
the quality win be very poor.