1889
:
The consistency of the specific characteristics and subtleties
of each Brand requires sensitive blending of various complementary
growths. The perpetuity of this tradition has always required
exceptional wooden tuns of wine.
The one created for (containing 200,000 bottles) was
a true masterpiece for the period.
Taken by road in eight days from Épernay to Paris, it aroused
the enthusiasm of the population and was one of the major
curiosities of the Universal Exhibition of 1889.