Name: Essai sur l'Histoire des Vins de la Champagne. Bound with: Recherches (...) sur la culture de la Vigne (...) et la confection des vins de Champagne
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Essai sur l'Histoire des Vins de la Champagne. Bound with: Recherches (...) sur la culture de la Vigne (...) et la confection des vins de Champagne

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Essai sur l'Histoire des Vins de la Champagne. Bound with: Recherches (...) sur la culture de la Vigne (...) et la confection des vins de Champagne

Two Champagne books, and a whole industry in transition.

Sutaine, Max; Plonquet, J.L.

Essai sur l'Histoire des Vins de la Champagne. Bound with: Recherches (...) sur la culture de la Vigne (...) et la confection des vins de Champagne

1845, Reims, L. Jacquet; Matot Braine

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Overview

Two works on Champagne bound together in Reims in the mid-1860s, pairing Sutaine's historical essay with Plonquet's practical treatise at a decisive moment in the region's viticultural development. Sutaine wrote for the Congres scientifique de France, opening in Reims on 1 September 1845, in response to a set question on the origin and development of the Champagne wine trade. Twenty years later, Plonquet - a physician of Ay-Champagne - approached the same subject through cultivation, applied science, and production, in a work awarded a gold medal by the Comice agricole de Reims. Read in sequence, the two texts move from regional history and literary memory to varieties, pests, chemistry, and commerce, giving the composite volume a clear intellectual coherence beyond either work alone.

Inside the book

Sutaine traces the history of the vine in Champagne from Roman and medieval origins to the seventeenth century, dwelling on the prestige of the still wines of Ay, Sillery, and Verzy and on the Ordre des Coteaux. Plonquet turns from that historical view to the vineyards of the Marne in practice: grape varieties, cultivation, vineyard pests, and the chemistry and commerce of sparkling wine production, including tirage, dosage, carbonic acid, and the question of cane versus beet sugar. The final section preserves proceedings of the section cantonale d'Ay from 1860 to 1865.

Why La Fenice likes it

A wonderfully coherent Champagne double act: memory and method bound as one, where Reims history gives way to vineyard science just as the region was learning to sparkle with modern precision.

Pp. [1] f.e., [1], 112. Pp. [8], 216, [1] r.e.

Contemporary half basane, the spine with four raised bands, gilt decoration, and two red morocco labels lettered in gold with both titles. Binding rubbed at the extremities, with more pronounced wear at the foot of the spine. Sutaine: foxing to the initial leaves, thereafter diminishing; a light waterstain to the upper inner margin of the first forty pages, not affecting the text. Plonquet: pronounced waterstaining to the upper inner margin from approximately p. 140, increasing toward the end of the volume (beginning to touch the text around p. 155). Overall, a sound copy, in nearly good condition.

Dimensions (inches): 7 x 4 3/4 x 3/4