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In the rear of the courtyard, which presents that aspect of animation common to flourishing establishments in the Champagne, is the principal cellier, with a small building in front, where a steam-pump for pumping up water from the chalk is installed, while at right angles with the cellier are the stables and bottle-sheds.

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The large cellier, which is 20 feet high and 80 feet broad, will be no less than 260 feet in length when completed.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

Tim Lenz October 27, 2008 at 10:22 pm thanks for posting this! chef brian was the executive chef at le cellier when i worked there in 2005, and he really is a great chef.

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J'en ai profité pour ranger le cellier de ma chambre avec ma soeur.

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So soon as the sediment is removed the bottles are raised in baskets to the cellier above, where the liqueuring, re-corking, stringing, and wiring are successively accomplished.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

We are first conducted into an antiquated-looking low cellier, the roof of which is sustained with rude timber supports, and here bottles of wine are being labelled and packed, although this is but a mere adjunct to the adjacent spacious packing-room provided with its loading platform and communicating directly with the public road.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

On the left is a large vaulted cellier, where the operations of disgorging, liqueuring, and corking the wine are performed, and which communicates with the vast adjoining packing department.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

Stacked up on every side of the cellier, and when empty often in eight tiers, are rows upon rows of casks, 4,000 of which contain wine of the last vintage, sufficient for a million bottles of champagne.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

In a large cellier here, where the tuns are ranged side by side between the rows of iron columns supporting the roof, the firm make their _cuvée_; here too the bottling of their wine takes place, and considerable stocks of high-class reserve wines and more youthful growths are stored ready for removal when required by the central establishment.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857

In the first cellier we encounter cases and baskets of champagne all ready to be despatched by rail, with women and men busily engaged in labelling and packing other bottles which continue to arrive from the cellars below in baskets secured to an endless chain.

Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857