Its product has reputation abroad.

It yields a choice champagne and a fine claret, and its hock took a prize in France two or three years ago.

The champagne is kept in a maze of passages under ground, cut in the rock, to secure it an even temperature during the three-year term required to perfect it.

In those vaults I saw 120,000 bottles of champagne.

The colony of Victoria has a population of 1,000,000, and those people are said to drink 25,000,000 bottles of champagne per year.
The dryest community on the earth.