A wine prepared from grapes; the best varieties are manufactured at Epernay, Rheims and Mareuil in France, but the vintages of each year are vastly different, and sometimes the grape crop is a dismal failure. Hence champagne drinkers in Europe and Great Britain are versed on the merits and demerits of the various vintages. While in the United States, but very little attention has thus far been paid to the matter; the following clipping from the Hotel World of London, England, will doubtless be of interest:

Year

Yield in gallons

Character of the wines

1891

3,648,292

Passable, but very dear.

1890

6,673,666

Ordinary quality.

1889

6,109.994

Very good, price excessively high.

1888

4,639,098

Passable.

18-7

10,409,278

Fairly good, light.

1886

6,525,398

Some good wines, with abundance of vin-osity; but for the most part the vintage is under suspicion, which time has not so far lessened

1885

8,199,070

Mediocre, resembling the 1883's.

1884

11,528,946

Fine elegant wines, highly prized by connoisseurs.

1883

9,061,460

Mediocre and dear; acid.

1882

7,068, 568

Mediocre; acid; immature.

1881

14,627,140

Passable.

1880

2,423,236

Very good; lighter than the 1874's, excessively dear.

1879

2 008.776

Complete failure, yield small, fortunately.

1878

11.898,546

Good; fine; light.

1877

10,407,694

Mediocre; acid.

1876

16.120.786

Mediocre.

1875

21.710.346

Passable.

1874

8,178,544

Very fine,both as to vinosity and color, has been greatly sought after.

1873

3,138,718

Bad; acid,and notwithstanding that. dear.

1872

4.480,960

Fairly good.

1871

6,465,306

Mediocre.

1870

4960.010

Good.

1869

8.542.886

Passable.

1868

12,316,700

Very good, elegant, and lighter than the 1865's.

1867

3,889,356

Mediocre.

1868

19,449,870

Bad.

1865

14,314,542

Wine of superior quality;very vinous.