Note 58 — PART I.

Ibid. Many details respecting the yield of the vines and vineyards of the Mountain and the River are preserved in this Mémorial, which extends from 1569 to 1625, and the author of which was a celebrated builder of Reims. During the last thirty years of the century the vines seem to have suffered greatly from frost and wet. Sometimes the wine was so bad that it was sold, as towards the end of 1579, at 5 s. 6 d. the queue; at others it was so scarce that it rose, as at the vintage of 1587, to 126 s. 8 d. the queue. At the vintage of 1579 the grapes froze on the vines, and were carried to the press in sacks. At the commencement of the vintage the new wine fetched from 12 s. to 16 s. the queue, but it turned out so bad that by Christmas it was sold at 5 s. 6 d.