Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces (1909)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- [from old catalog] · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 182
ly through thewine-presses of the monks, who reserved theproduct entire to be used as presents to Popesand Princes. Thus Clos Vougeot was the modelfor all other ambitious, monastic vineyards,and those mediseval monks who excelled allothers of their time as wine-growers were thelogical inheritors of… … 138 Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy physician, Fagon, ordered its wine as a stim-ulant for the jaded forces of Louis XIV, a cir-cumstance which practically developed a warbetween the wine growers of Champagne andBurgundy, with a victory for the Cote dOr, aswas proper. To-day we are…
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