“MANUFACTURED” WINE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43070, 19 March 1907, Page 1

“MANUFACTURED” WINE.

Very recently we had in this column au article dealing with the wholesale manufacture of - so-called wine from various inferior substitutes for the real ingredients, ,and now a cable message from Germany gives* : au instance of‘the prosecution of some of this class of unscrupulous 14 fakers.” It appears that extraordinary revelations have been made in the Eeichstag as to the extent of wiue adultera-. l ion in Germany. One merchant who has been convicted of adulterating his wines, purcast d in seven- years 34001 b of glycerine, 12,00011* of i;rt;r:c acid, IGnOlb of potash, auti 11001 bof eitiic aciu. > meiv . chant nanied Kerr has been sentenced at Neustadt to two months’ hard labour, besides a hue, for selling during twelve months 30,000 gallons of wine which did not contain a trace * of grape juice. Now ' these preparations containing a fearfully high percentage of aduG teraut, could. not be anything but detrimental to Cthe human system—probably much more harmful than the 1 pure wiue they were supposed ' to represent. It is satisfactory ; to note that Germany does not i intend to encourage this pernicious trade by the mere, infliction of a nominal fine which v the wrongdoer pays with a cheercountenance ‘ and then departs to continue the same practices*., satisfying the law by paying the line when brought before the Court occasionally, No, the rascally ‘ faker ” is treated to a compulsory term of imprisonment in addition to the payment of a fine, and no doubt firm course of action will much to check the “ industry. This, however, is in Germany. We should like to see the purity of alcoholic liquors vigorously maintained gin this country by some efficient means of inspection for a deal too much doubtful- f liquor finds its way upon the market, much to the greater detriment of those who drink it ‘ v