248. _To pass White Wine off for Champaign_.

Rack it often from the lees; and when very brilliant, bottle it

off:—this must be done between vintage time and the month of May.

It has (says Mr. Carnell) been a most absurd practice with many

families to use green gooseberries, in order to imitate Champaign

wine; but green fruit is by no means fit or proper for the making

of any wine. Nor, indeed, is it at all necessary in the making an

imitation of Champaign.