Yet in the very centre, past all price,
About a liquid glassful will remain;
And this is stronger than the strongest grape
Could e’er express in its expanded shape:
’Tis the whole spirit brought to a quintessence;
And thus the chilliest aspects may concentre
A hidden nectar under a cold presence.’[377]
Although we find Henderson remarking, in 1822, that
‘the pink Champagne is less in request than the colourless, and has in fact nothing to entitle it to the preference,’