What's in your Wine

**The Lawspeaker** · 04-09-2010, 07:13 PM

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What's in your Wine

See what additives & artificial ingredients are being put into the mainstream wines you regularly buy in your local supermarket

**The Lawspeaker** · 04-09-2010, 08:28 PM

Christ almighty. This takes me back to something that I read about. An Austrian wine scandal in 1985 where producers had added diethylene glycol to the wine. This killed several people in mainly Austria and Germany.

**Daos** · 04-10-2010, 05:53 PM

I've never been a fan of commercial beverages... I'll just stick to what me and my family are brewing.

**Loddfafner** · 04-10-2010, 06:17 PM

I avoid Italian wines and even olive oil because the strength of organized crime combined with Italian complacency has enabled a lot of careless disposal of toxic waste affecting vineyards and orchards.

**Tabiti** · 04-11-2010, 05:12 AM

For many cheaper wines they don't use grape at all but only vine leaves. There are special concentrates, few drops of which turn any liquid into Merlot, Cabernet and so on.
Good I hate wine.

**Lulletje Rozewater** · 04-11-2010, 06:18 AM

I avoid SA wines,with all these kaffirs prancing from the vineyard to the press,who knows what is in there.

**Piparskeggr** · 04-11-2010, 07:05 AM

I have made at home ale/beer since 1974, wine since 1975 and mead since 1983...

**Tabiti** · 04-11-2010, 07:30 AM

Tried Ale Beer (or Live Beer) few times - this is the BEST drink I've ever tried. On one advertisement they say "The difference between live beer and other beer is like the difference between fruit juice in tetrapack and fresh".

**~~Albion~~** · 04-03-2012, 05:22 PM

I'm more of a cider and perry man myself. Farm workers used to be partly paid in cider in the south west.

There's a lot of weak, cheap cider sold today like cheap wine. It's crap and not the real thing. German cider is usually crap too, they call it Apple wine.

England, France and Spain are the real cider nations of Europe. The Normans popularised it in England and Normandy itself is still associated with it.
Perry is quite often a French and Belgian thing, but there's a long tradition of that in England as well.

Originally Posted by Civis Batavi

Christ almighty. This takes me back to something that I read about. An Austrian wine scandal in 1985 where producers had added diethylene glycol to the wine. This killed several people in mainly Austria and Germany.

I read they used it to thaw ice off roads, apparently it was better at this than the salt.