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Show DOlLED WINE TASTED- GOOD. Champagne Heated In the San Fran-clieo Fran-clieo Tire Mat Tine Flavor. . -At the tine nf tho San Francisco flro 100.000 quarl bottles of choice California Cal-ifornia chamiasne boiled for over 48 hours In 1,000,000 gallons of shoriy. The result r-ns the production of 10 000 quarts of champagne of rare flavor at a. cost, however, never before expended ex-pended on n like quantity. The sherry wascontalned In S0.000-gallon S0.000-gallon casks on the upper floors of the building of the California Wine association. The fire destroed the casks and the fiord of thprry poured Into tho ccllnrs. where were stored the 100,000 bottleH of wlnr The fury of Uie flames soon Heatd the sherry to boiling point, and the boll-Ing boll-Ing continued for two days and nights. When cooled the sherry was found to bo filled willi extraneous matter and worthless, so It was pumped out Into tho streets. Then It was found that I 10,000 of the bottles of champ8gn were unbroken, and that tho unparalleled unpar-alleled process had Imparled to tho wine rare, flavor. Wlno experts are now testing out the "boiling process" and the result may he a revolution ot-tho ot-tho methods of this Industry. n |