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  • To give you but one pathetic example, I identified a Carneros pinot noir as a saumur champigny.

    Sasha Smith 2009

  • To give you but one pathetic example, I identified a Carneros pinot noir as a saumur champigny.

    Diploma Dispatches: The Exam 2008

  • To give you but one pathetic example, I identified a Carneros pinot noir as a saumur champigny.

    LENNDEVOURS: 2008

  • The excitement of discussing and selecting the finery she loved affected Lady Fareham's spirits like a draught of saumur.

    London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

  • Apollinaris water and a bottle of sparkling saumur.

    Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

  • Another sparkling saumur manufacturer of note is M. Alfred Rousteaux, to-day the sole proprietor of the well-known brand of M.rlet and

    Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

  • Department of the Marne, sparkling saumur will always lack that excessive lightness which is the crowning grace of fine champagne, still it has only to be kept for a few years instead of being drunk shortly after its arrival from the wine-merchant for its quality to become greatly improved and its intrinsic value to be considerably enhanced.

    Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

  • Sparkling saumur, or the newly-introduced sparkling sauternes, and the cheaper hocks and moselles, will do equally well at a greatly reduced cost.

    Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

  • Another considerable manufacturer of sparkling saumur is M. Louis Duvau aîné, owner of the château of Varrains, in the village of the same name, at no great distance from the Coteau de Saumur.

    Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

  • When white wine is being made from black grapes for sparkling saumur the grapes are conveyed in these baskets forthwith to the underground pressoirs in the neighbouring villages before their skins get at all broken in order that the wine may be as pale as possible in colour.

    Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

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