WHAT IS WINE MADE OF?

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 15, 1881

WHAT IS WINE MADE OF?

As wine merchants are petitioning the French government to put a stop to the manufacture of artificial wines, the petitioners asserting that not one-third of the wine used in Paris is made of grapes, the many Americans who turn up their noses at the juice of our own grapes will naturally wonder what the spurious French wines are made of. An exchange says that there are a number of large factories near Paris in which wines are made from rotten apples, damaged dried fruit of all kinds, beets, and spoiled molasses. But there are not enough of these materials to make as much wine as is required by foreign trade. Turnip juice has been worked over into wine, and American cider is the basis of millions of bottles of champagne, but good apples and turnips are too costly to be wasted on cheap wines, such as most Americans buy. Some of the temperance societies might find the returns they are after by satisfying public curiosity about what wines are made of.—N. Y. Herald.