BURGUNDY
Burgundies, at every restaurant. Of course we pay a high price for it, and yet it is well to remember that the vineyard which produces its incomparable grape is only six and a half acres in extent; that the wine is more highly prized in France and Flanders than in all the world beside; and that there still survive Frenchmen and Walloons of taste and purse. A word to the wise is enough, and lo, here are three!
As for Burgundy’s heir-apparent, Chambertin, the favoured of Napoleon, he also is a native of an exiguous vineyard. Yet none in Paris enjoys a higher reputation, and it is idle to expect him this side of the Channel. Indeed, you must needs put up with Richebourg, Clos Vougeot, Nuits, Corton, Pommard, Volnay; even with Beaune and Macon. If these do nought beside, they may make you
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