THE IDEAL TIPPLE.
WINE THAT "CHEERS BUT NOT INEBRIATES,' , Wine that any temperance advocate may drink withont the slightest danger of breaking his pledge at last seems to be an assured fact. Kver since mankind began, to ia-e things besides water to drink, science has been trying to concoct wines, beers, and other beverages that would taste and look exactly like the " real thing," but that would contain*m> alcohol. Tills proved a difficult matter, and most of the beverages produced were uot enough like the genuine alcoholic article to deceive even an amateur. They lacked the sparkling tang, the delicate colour and the fragrant aroma which make alcoholic beverages pleasing to so many men and women—entirely apart from their intoxicating qualities. Italian scientists have lately succeeded in producing a de-alcoholised wine that is guaranteed to deceive any connoisseur it contains all the ethers and aldehydes, the tannic acid and other chemical elements that give wine its peculiar taste and colour But there is not a drop of alcohol in it, and you may drink H from morning to night withont fear of intoxication.
The de-alcohollsation is accomplished in two ways. One is by distilling ordinary wine over and over again under relatively low pressnre. The other is by blowing through the .wine, at a temperature lower than that of the human body, the waste gas produced during fermentation. Both these methods leave the wine unaltered in every respect, except for the removal of its alcohol. And alcohol will not form again, no matter how long the wine is kept.
The efforts now being made to manufacture this non-ljjtoxlcatlng wino on a large scale are attracting the greatest interest among physicians and temperance advocates. Hundreds of thousands of moderate and convivial drinkers can, it is believed, be saved from the evil effects of alcohol by offering them a really agreeable substitute for alcoholic drinks such, as this new Italian wine is said to be _
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 61, 11 March 1916, Page 17
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323THE IDEAL TIPPLE. Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 61, 11 March 1916, Page 17
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