The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-20
FRANCE PROTECTS REAL CHAMPACNES Must Come from the True
 Country COUN TERFEITS ARE BARRED No Sparkling Wine Can Be Labeled Champagne Unless It Is the Real
 Stuff-Restrictions
 By Law.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
 The hostess with an eye to economy and managers of hotels and restaurants will find 1t difficult hereafter to deceive their guests with imitation champagnes. The swathings of the bottles must be cunning indeed, else the labels will make the deception palpable. For new laws in France. Just put into effect, forbid that any sparkling wine shall be called cham pagne unless it comes from the "cham- pagne" country of that republic Other connections must be plainly marked lar tificial" The pure food law of this coun- try contains regulations with a similar effect, and prohibits the importing of wines the sale of which Is forbidden In the country of it's manufacture. Thus bubbling wines from Germany, Italy or Southern France, from California, the sand dunes of New Jersey and the vine yards of Central New York are no longer legally .champagnes." They sink in to the plebeian obscurity of sparkling wines' or champagne types.
 Changes Are Sweeping.
 The sweeping nature of these changes may be understood by noticing the trans- formation of wine into a champagne The bubbles are produced by arrestlng the fermentation before it is complete The sweetness is the result of adding to the wine a liquor made of sugar candy.
 The French regulations were promul- gated from decree of President Fall Heres, announced on September 1907. A delay of six months was granted to deal CTS to comply with it. so that the rules put into force on March last are now being felt here. The regulations are re- garded as the direct outcome of the riots and other disorders in the French wine growing districts about year ago. They embody the pure food reforms now gen. eral in France, those regulations regard ing sparkling wines being aimed at the repression of adulterations.
 One of the new French restrictions s that no wine shall be sold, transported or offered for sale as a sparkling wine" unless its effervescence results from a second alcoholic fermentation in bottles. either spontaneous or as a result of the champagne method. If the effervescence Is even partially produced by the addi- ton of carbonic gas the wine must be marked "artiicia' (fantasie'D or with a similar qualifying word
 Restrictions By Law.
 Then comes the restriction by region.
 ''When the name of place. continues the French law, Ifs at the same time the name of an article having an exclusive right to that place's name, the land own CTS, wine growers or merchants in res idence in that place, when they sell or offer for sale an article not entitled to that place's name. cannot insert the name on their labels, trademarks, in- voices, commercial papers or in pack ing, unless the use the word, Land own CTS at - Wine growers at -,' or Merchant at -,' and the department in which the place is situated, and the whole must be printed In identical type.
 When, by the effect of general con- sent or custom, the name of the alleged place of origin of the article is the main factor for facilitating its sale the use of any indication otherwise likely to create confusion in the buyers mind, as to their nature or origin is forbidden.
 In the pature of things 1t would seem