Attributed to Vizetelly on internal and external evidence (e.g. close parallels with passages in Vizetelly's later books on wine, Facts about Champagne (London: Ward, Locke, 1879) and A History of Champagne (London: Scribner & Welford, 1882). See David Parker, 'Champagne, All the Year Round and Henry Vizetelly' in Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press, 1850-70 eds. Hazel Mackenzie and Ben Winyard (Buckingham: University of Buckingham Press, 2013), pp. 201-10.