WINE WITHOUT GRAPES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 24 May 1907, Page 4

WINE WITHOUT GRAPES.

A Bavarian wine dealer named Kern has been sentenced in the Frauental Criminal Court to two months' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of £SOO, for systematic adulteration of his wine. It was shown that in one year he manufactured by means of chemicals 5.5,000 gallons of wine without a single drop of grape juice. Dr. Koesicke. the agrarian leader, has made some startling revelations of the poisonous concoctions which are being sold us Rhine and Moselle wine. One chemical manufacturer, whose name is made public by Dr. Roesicke, is proved to have supplied no less than 207 wine merchants with injurious chemical preparations used to adulterate wines. ' ~W" a ? «■* An annual average of 100 nine tUM- 1 chants are eonvietcd foj illegally Bootoring wines in Germany, and during !!)().> 70,0tK) gallons of wine were condemned by Stntfe inspectors to be poured down the drains as unfit for public consumption. In one case, the inspector found 10 per cent, of pure wine and III) per cent, of chemical concoctions. One wine merchant was proved to have used within a period of seven years no less than ::00 tons of glycerine, 120 tons of tartaric acid, sixteen tons of potash, and eleven tons of citric acid.