[84] ] L’Art de bien traiter, &c.
[85] ] Maison Rustique, 1574.
[86] ] Max Sutaine’s Essai sur le Vin de Champagne.
[87] ] Pluche’s Spectacle de la Nature.
[88] ] Idem and Maison Rustique, 1582. M. Louis Perrier, in his Mémoire sur le Vin de Champagne, says that the Ay wines yield but little mousse.
[89] ] Max Sutaine’s Essai sur le Vin de Champagne.
[90] ] St. Evremond’s letter to the Comte d’Olonne, already noticed. In another epistle to Lord Galloway, dated 29th August 1701, he observes: ‘As to M. de Puisieux (Roger Brulart, Marquis de Puisieux et de Sillery and Governor of Epernay), in my opinion he acts very wisely in falling in with the bad taste now in fashion as regards Champagne wine, in order the better to sell his own. I could never have thought that the wines of Reims could have been changed into wines of Anjou, from their colour and their harshness (verdeur). There ought to be a harshness (vert) in the wine of Reims, but a harshness with a colour, which turns into a sprightly tartness (sêve) when it is ripe; ... and it is not to be drunk till the end of July.... The wines of Sillery and Roncières used to be kept two years, and they were admirable, but for the first four months they were nothing but verjuice. Let M. de Puisieux make a little barrel (cuve) after the fashion in which it was made forty years ago, before this depravity of taste, and send it to you.’ St. Evremond’s Works, English edition of 1728.
[91] ] Max Sutaine’s Essai sur le Vin de Champagne.
[92] ] Dom Guillaume Harlot’s Histoire de Reims.
[93] ] Ibid.