THE WORLD'S VINTAGE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 256, 5 November 1910, Page 5

THE WORLD'S VINTAGE.

A fS3ER3iOP|g SHORTAGE

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Messrs W. -and ';A.t .Gilbe^s survey of the -sintage , estimates ?tb&t it will lie one-tent^ of the average crop in the Rhine and ;Mosel!e'districts, and •no vintage at all -at '(Uhassapagne, Saumnr, Burgundy, •'Chablis, iand, no "brandy- CogKac will/ be a !mird of -the usual vintage, Mefioclbalf *& crop, Italy half to tfeee-quaptiers. ,-Sjjanish and Australian supplies 'have been ■decreased by £he (duty .on,^pirfe inducing growers "to (distfl, ;in increasing proportion, teandy »ibr 'local consumption. Fra/nce?s iloss by the failure of the vintage is