12 THE VINEYARDS OF THE WORLD. 



" Depart ements " of which all, with the 

 exception of the eight most northern, pro- 

 duce wine. The vintage of 1911 was a 

 very fine one as regards the quality of 

 the wines made, but the quantity was 

 greatly below the average. Official reports 

 place the productions of wine in France 

 last year at 987,482,100 gallons, but these 

 figures are not final, and we prefer, there- 

 fore, not to make use of them. As to the 

 preceding year, the vintage of 1910 was 

 such an unprecedented failure that it does 

 not give any fair idea of the yearly produc- 

 tion of wine in France. If, however, we 

 take the average of the three preceding 

 years, 1907, 1908 and 1909, none of which 

 was remarkably good, we find that the 

 yearly average production of wine in the 

 country is over one milliard 300 million 

 gallons of wine. By way of a comparison, 

 it may be remarked that the average yearly 



