Why is it that so many of New Zealand’s Sauvignon Blancs (the leading grape variety there)The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
This is the year. As of 2024, we will no longer write about wines that come in massive,The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
Sipping droplet spit The remains remain hidden No beauty inside. This haiku was written for our trusty companion Nigel, a big potbellied whiteThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign...
Why don’t we drink more Italian Lambrusco? Really—we should! It’s about as deliciousThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
One wine, more than any other, is strongly associated with the history of the United States,The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
A. Homemade iced tea during the period known as the Roaring 20s
B. The first bottled lemonade
C. Coca-Cola
D. New Orleans “Milk” Punch
C.
In the 1880s, Atlanta, GA, chemist John Stith Pemberton created a popular and stimulating wine tonic infused with kola nuts and coca leaves. But when the city of Atlanta (his biggest market) voted to ban alcohol, Pemberton removed the wine, and kept the caffeine and cocaine, according to reporting in The New York Times. By 1929, these two ingredients were also removed. As Prohibition swept the country, Coca-Cola began being marketed as the ultimate “temperance drink.”
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