FRENCH CHAMPAGNE AREA.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1099, 11 April 1911, Page 5

FRENCH CHAMPAGNE AREA.

MORE PROTESTS IN AUBE. By Tcleeraph-Press Association-Copyright Paris, April 9. There have been further demonstrations in the department of Aube, as a protest against tho non-inclusion of the department in the area in which champagno may be manufactured. Meetings at Troyes, the capital of the department, demanded tho reinclusion of Aube in the champagne area. Huge processions of winegrowers have been held.

The vaTying fortunes of the cliampagno growers during the past twelve years have led to tho present situation. Tho vintages of 1889 and 1900 wero a failure; thoso of the next six years were good or fair, and that of 1007 unsatisfactory. Tho crop ot 1!)08 was still worse, both in quality and quantity, and tho 1009 crop, though better, was below the level of that Of 1907. The 1010 vintage was a complete failure. While supplies have been steadily diminishing tho demand has been increasing all over tho world; and while some shippers wero able to draw upon their stocks, others resorted to importing wines from outsido the champagne area, though _ they do not admit having sold such wines as champagne. In order to prevent, imposition, the new law enacts that wine, grown and made in the champagne district shall be watched by exoif-o officers from the vintase until it leaves the district, and that all such wine shall not bnly be entitled to be railed champagne, but must bo sold with tho word "champagne" burned into tho cork, printed on the foot or label of the bottle, and ftencilled on the case. "Sparkling wines" not grown in Champagne may be shipped from tho district as such.