Coca wine
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| Type | Wine |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | France |
| Introduced | 1863 |
Coca wine is an alcoholic beverage combining wine with cocaine.[1] One popular brand was Vin Mariani, developed in 1863 by French-Corsican entrepreneur Angelo Mariani.[2]
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Peruvian Wine of Coca
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Coca Mariani medal by Louis-Oscar Roty
Related beverages
In Atlanta, John Pemberton, a pharmacist, developed a beverage based on Vin Mariani, called Pemberton's French Wine Coca. It proved popular among American consumers. In 1886, when Georgia introduced Prohibition, Pemberton had to replace the wine in his recipe with non-alcoholic syrup. The new recipe was similar to, but not the same as, Coca-Cola.[2]
At the end of the 19th century, the fear of drug abuse made coca-based drinks less popular. This led to the prohibition of cocaine in the United States in 1914 (Harrison Act), and the removal of cocaine from coca wine as well as Coca-Cola, though coca leaf remained.[2] Coca wine itself became illegal in the United States when its other main drug, alcohol, was banned just a few years later with Eighteenth Amendment in 1920.
References
External links
Media related to Cocawine at Wikimedia Commons- University of Buffalo "Before Prohibition: Images from the preprohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in America and Europe" Addiction Research Unit