Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling WinesVizetelly, Henry
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Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines
Vizetelly, Henry
Champagne (Wine); Sparkling wines; Wine and wine making
The wines, which are treated precisely after the system pursued in the
Champagne, are bottled during the months of July and August, and are
made either sweet or dry according to the country they are destined for.
Considerable shipments of the dry pale Styrian champagne take place to
England, where the firm also send a delicate sparkling muscatel and a
sparkling red burgundy, which will favourably compare with the best
sparkling wines of the Côte d’Or. They have also a large market for
their wines in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, and export to
British North America, the East Indies, China, Japan, and Australia.
From the year 1855 up to the present time the firm of Kleinoscheg
Brothers have been awarded no less than sixteen medals for their
sparkling wines at various important home and foreign exhibitions.
At Marburg on the river Drave, in the vicinity of the Bacher Mountains,
which stretch far into Carinthia, and have their lower slopes covered
with vines, Herr F. Auchmann has established a successful sparkling wine
manufactory. The raw wine comes from the vineyards around Marburg and
from Pettau, some ten or twelve miles lower down the Drave. The vintage
commonly lasts from the middle of October until the middle of November.
Black grapes of the clevener and portuguese varieties are pressed as in
the Champagne, so as to yield a white must, with which a certain portion
of white wine from the mosler or furmint grape is subsequently mingled.
The bottling takes place as early as April or May. The wines are
principally consumed in Austria, but are also exported to Russia, Italy,
Egypt, the Danubian Principalities, Australia, &c.
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