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Wines.
Champagne
an
expensive
wine.
Champagne
in-
tended
for
the
English
market
is
much
drier
than
that
intended
for
the
American
and
Russian.
The
French
take
wine
excessively
iced,
and
drink
Cham-
pagne
towards
the
close
of
dinner.
This
wine
first
attained
the
great
celebrity
it
still
enjoys
in
the
seventeenth
century,
but
it
was
noted
as
a
first-
class
wine
in
the
thirteenth
century
(see
Bataille
des
Vins).
Adjoining
the
district
of
Champagne,
in
the
South
(and
indeed
a
continuation
of
the
same wine
tract),
is
the
ancient
province
of
the
Dukes
of
Burgundy
—
les
princes
des
bons
vins.
Its
vineyards
produce
the
glorious
wine
known
as
Burgundy
—
“
with
all
its
sunlight
glow.”
This
wine
during
the
last
century
provoked
a
redoubtable
controversy
between
the
professors
of
physic
and
men
of
science
of
the
time.
The
dis-
pute,
which
related
to
the
comparative
merits
of
Burgundy
and
Champagne,
lasted
for
nearly
a
cen-
tury,
when
a
solemn
decree
was
pronounced
by
the
Faculty
of
Medicine
in
favour
of
Champagne
;
a
verdict
which
certainly
was
not
agreed
to
by
the
great
Napoleon,
whose
favourite
drink
was
Cham-
bertin,
a
celebrated
kind
of
Burgundy.
Some
of
the
vines
in
the
celebrated
vineyard
of
Clos-de-
Yougeot,
are
said
to
be
300
years
old.
This
wine,