TRUTH ABOUT WINE
I hiring a debate in the Victorian Parliament, Mr. H. E. Thoneman, M L.A., who is a wine expert, made the astounding statement that “when a per-on drinks (Australian) sweet wine containing 34 per cent, or 35 per cent, proof spirit, he is consuming onefifth of absolute alcohol; the balance consists of water and flavouring material.” Pretty French names, romantic Spanish descriptions and flowery Latin phrases all stand shamefully denuded of their meaning when wine-experts begin to tell the truth about their wares. Sixty-five per cert, water-hulk and flavouring, thirty-five per cent, dangerous narcotic drug—and there’s your “Australian Sweet Wine.” The only excuse for the presence of water and flavouring is that the drug may he made palatable, and that its narcotising effects may he assimilated more slowlv and thcroughlv.
The only question left, the most baffling of all, is: “Why do apparently sane folk drink it at all ?”
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White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 6, 1 July 1946, Page 7
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