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drunk in Scotland about 1450,
275

- characteristics of this wine, 3.9
Beaujolais, wine of, 350
-- advantages of, over claret, 260
- all common cheap red wines in
France, now called 'Beaujolais,'
351
Beechworth, in New South Wales,
wine grown at, 458
Beer, quantity drunk in Paris in
1861, 377

Behic, M., Minister of Agriculture,

his letter to the Dijon Chamber
of Commerce, on the size of
bottles, 493

Belem, fort of, 194

Belgian houses, their dealings in
Bordeaux wines, 258

Bell, the late Archibald, his lines on
'Hotch-potch' quoted, 500
Bercy, cellars at, 12, 277

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expenses of rent and octroi dues
at, 371

mode of transacting business at,
371

visit to one of the cellars, 372
- 'watering' wines, 373

- racking and fining, 374
Bilhetes, or certificates of goodness,
of port wine, 126

trade in bilhetes, 126

the old Douro Company abo-
lished and a new one formed, 127

Cadiz-continued

Port St. Mary, 201, 202

map of Cadiz and the neigh-
bourhood, 202

appearance of the streets, 202
rota tent from the bay opposite,
225
Calcavellos wine, 196
California, wines of, 471
Camblannes, wine of, 248
Camden Park (Australia), vintage
of 1863 at, 460
Canaries, the, 449

- the vines in the, attacked by
oïdium, 450

-contrast between coffee and
Canary, 450

Canada unsuited to the growth of
the vine, 471

remarks on the subject, 472
'Canary sack,' 449

'Candie wine,' price of, in the reign
of Edward III., 291
Cape, or South African, 29

- formerly used for lowering
sherry, 31

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I cellars at Nuits, 339

the extensive cellars at Bercy, 371
no underground cellars in Greece,

427

proper arrangement of a cellar,

478

iron and moveable bins, 478
cases and bins combined, 481

- ignorance of architects about
cellars, 482

temperature of cellars, 482

practice of icing wines, 482
description of the requisites of a
good wine cellar, 482
Cement, imitated wines of, 359
- casks, marks, and brands at,
like those of other countries, 360
- great wine stores at, for expor-
tation, 360

wines grown in the cellars of, 406
Cement for champagne corks, 321
Cérons, wines of the parish of, 262
Cette, imitated wines of, 359
Chablis, wine of, 339, 350

most kinds of white French
wines sold under the name of,
Chablis, 350

CHA

519

Chalk mixed with Greek wines, 424
Chalons, Mayor of, his champagne,

324

Chambertin, celebrated vineyard of,

341

— annual average produce of wine,

341

character of the wine, 341
Champagne, use of, forbidden to his
army by Henry V., 289

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Cazanove's verses on, 306

district in which it is grown,
and character of the soil and
subsoil, 307

- crayons and gouttes d'or, 308
- mode of making champagne, 309
'goût de taille,' 309

former perverted tastes in Eng-
land, 309

- storing champagne, 310

the blending, 310

- proportions of cuvées made in
the years 1857 and 1858, 311
fining, 312

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