Saumur Reading (1882)

[Don Rice]

And why not? This chapter, from Vizetelly's 1882 text could make for good Saumur reading at the beach, perhaps with a glass nearby:

From "A History of Champagne with Notes on the Other Sparkling Wines of France"

 

[Joel Stewart]

That looks like an interesting read (more please?).

Are those windmills up on the hill?

 

[Don Rice]

originally posted by Joel Stewart:
That looks like an interesting read (more please?).

Are those windmills up on the hill?

Windmills, yes - lot's of them in Anjou.

More? Here's a quick Vouvray poem to brighten a rainy NYC afternoon - from 1913, by Charles G. Fall (who I know little about).

A link to the full volume is here.

 

[Don Rice]

More Saumur reading:

This from the Medical Times and Gazette of March 1879

 

[Thor]

Real champagne then, as now, was very expensive. To use it largely, even at considerable entertainments, was considered a mark of luxury and ostentation; but, singularly enough, a great deal that was sold and used as champagne was not champagne at all, but the product of the Saumur district

I'd ask the editor of the Medical Times and Gazette of March 1879 to explain his demurral, please.