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led. It produces excellent, tine, and delicate red wines, 
which, from its exposure, participate in the good quali 
ties of Y erznay and the good red wines of La Marne. 
The lower mountain comprehends a great quantity of 
vineyard countries ; among which we may distinguish 
Chamery, Ecueil, and Yille Demange : this last place 
in particular, when the season is good, yields wine which 
will keep for ten or twelve years. 
The lower mountain extends to the banks of the river 
Aisne. As the wines it produces are of a middling qua- 
lity, it scarcely requires to be particularized. 
The district of Saint Thierry has taken its name, with 
respect to its wines and vineyards, from a large extent of 
grounds containing large vineyards, such as Saint Thier- 
ry, Trigny, Chenav, Yillefranqueux, Douillon, Hermoii 
ville, and produce very agreeable red wines of a pale co- 
lour, very much in request by the dealers. 
But the wine properly called Clos Saint Thierry , and 
coming from the archbishopric of Itheims, is the only 
wine which unites the rich colour and flavour of Burgun- 
dy to the sparkling lightness of Champagne. Clos Saint 
Thierry holds the same rank among Champagne wines, 
that Clos-voageot does among those of Burgundy. 
In the enumeration of the vineyards of the mountain, 
some readers may perhaps expect to And Sillery men 
tioned, once so remarkable for red and white wines : the 
truth is, that Sillery wine is in a great measure composed 
of the wines produced in the territories of Y erznay, 
Mailly, and Saint Basle, once made, by a particular 
process, by the marechale cPEstrees , and for this reason 
long known by the name of Vins de la JWarechale. At 
the revolution this estate was divided, and sold to differ- 
ent rich proprietors of Rheims : the senator of Yalencia, 
however, the heir to a great part of this vineyard, neg- 
lects no means of restoring Sillery to its former reputation. 
