San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-23
He Is Fatigued at End Of
Day Spent in Research
Work on One Dispatch
Concerning Vineyard
Products.
BY WILLIAM IVY.

Paris, March 22.-People do not
always realize, as they read their
newspaper. the amount Of exacting
and oftentimes arduous research that
underlies the work of the correspond
ent. This is, of course, particular
ly true in the case of correspondence
from foreign lands, where the intri-
cate questions of strange customs
arise, rendered thousand times more
difficult by differences in language.
in approach, in national habit and
sentiment.
Take, for example, this particular
dispatch. The correspondent is not
Dragging about it, indeed it is moth
ing TO brag about-on the surface.
But back Of it lies practically a
whole day spent in research of the
most technical and difficult kind. And
even so, the whole subject has not
been covered-the writer has been
obliged to confine himself, as will ap-
pear later, to a particular-but never
theless important-phasc of it.
This is how the subject arose :
Your correspondent was invited by
the French Wine Exporters Commit
tee to attend, yesterday, a private
testing Of the product of the five
great viticultural regions, to-wit:
Anjou, Burgundy. Bordeaux, Cham
payne and the Rhone. The import
ance of the occasion was manifest,
but the difficulty was hardly less so.
One Must BE Prepared.
Obviously one cannot go TO slcA
an affair without elaborate advance
preparation, any more than one can
pass baccalaureate examination
without going to college. 1t was
therefore necessary for your CORE
spondent to get himself ready, name
ly by eating 81 francs worth of filet
de sole, poulet and cocotte, pate de
foie gras and frontage de roquefort,
accompanied by symphony orchestra
composed of Montrachet II. Chateau
Latte '07, and -Musigny '99.
And that, mind you, was only the
preparatory part. The hard work
was yet to come. For while there
were. to be only five great regions
represented at the tasting ceremony,
each region has many important sub
divisions, and each subdivision has its
multiple and rival growths of wine.
For instance. the Burgundy region
Il
Beaunes, alongside its mighty Ro-
names and Vougeots and Chamber
tins; not TO mention it's great va
riety of white wines. Bordeaux has
its subtle Medocs, its frank St.
Emilions, its syrupy Sauternes. And
so on.
Too Much For Afternoon.
The writer determined to begin
with the. Sauternes, and proceed
through the Medocs and Burgundies to
the Champagnes-in other words TO
hit the high spots. One cannot very
well do the whole thing in one after
noon, and do it thoroughly.
There was for example bottle OF
Chateau Yquem. 1906. Now you
don't know anything about Sauternes
if you have never tasted Chateau
Yquem Of one OF the famous years.
Everybody of course knows the
Sauternes" that used TO be on every
wine-list for s1.50. That is another
thing altOgether--a Creme against
Corona. Yquem, 1906, is Of an in
tensity of sveetness-well, you Just
want a very small glass. very small
indeed, and only half full. That Is
enough. Unfortunately they had no
small glasses yesterday afternoon.
The writer was just in the midst
of his second (rather large) glass of
Yquem. 1906, when somebody remark
ed: Have you tried the Chateau
Suduiraut. 1897 No. he had not.
1t seems that the proprietor of the
Chateau Suduiraut had provided just