1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book

Burgundy

In the good year fifteen hundred and twelve splendid King, Louis XII of France found it politic (and, we would like to think, pleasurable) to send to King James IV of Scotland a present. An especial present. A gift, indeed, that should completely befit an occasion so regal and so gallant. It is not particu larly surprising, therefore, to learn that in these circumstances King Louis ordered a great painted ship to be filled with puncheons of delicious wine from the province of old Burgundy, and in despatching it