428 TEST FOR CHAMPAGNE. 



Champagne, is thus easily discovered, as are also 

 home-made imitations, whether from the apple, pear, 

 or the gooseberry, many of which, in their sparkling 

 quality, approach to the real Champagne so closely, 

 that they have deceived many pretended connoisseurs; 

 all other wines may be easily tried by slaking a piece 

 of lime stone, and bottling the water, when perfectly 

 transparent, for use, as occasion may require. The 

 proof consists in filling half a wine glass with water, 

 and the other half with the suspected wine ; should it 

 turn black and muddy, it is a sign of impure wine." 



They must veritably be pretended connoisseurs, who 

 could mistake the fabricated for genuine Champagne ; 

 of the same breed precisely with those, on whom could 

 be imposed British for real Holland geneva. The 

 buyers, generally, not the growers, are said to be the 

 adulterators of foreign wines. Since the rational and 

 advantageous equalization of the duties between Por- 

 tugal and French wines has taken place, and a com- 

 mercial reciprocity and friendship between the two 

 great, and for ages, rival countries and enemies, have 

 happily commenced, we may expect to purchase the 

 finest French wines at reasonable rates. The choicest 

 and highest priced foreign wines are exported in 

 bottles. 



There seems to be no limit to the enterprise of our 

 transatlantic brethren. Who but an American, would 

 have thought of such a speculation, or risked his 

 capital in an adventure of ice from Boston to Cal- 

 cutta? Through the Bombay papers of September 

 28th, 1833, we hear that a cargo had actually arrived 

 at the former city, and without a greater reduction 

 in the quantity than was anticipated by the shippers. 



