Coca wine

Coca wine

Type	Wine
Country of origin	France
Introduced	1863

Peruvian Wine of Coca.

Coca wine is an alcoholic beverage combining wine with cocaine.^[1] One popular brand was Vin Mariani, developed in 1863 by Corsican entrepreneur Angelo Mariani.^[2]

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, and the removal of cocaine from coca wine as well as Coca-Cola, though coca leaf remained.^[2] The drink itself became illegal in the United States when its other main drug, alcohol, was banned just a few years later.

References

1. ^ G. Harding (2005). A Wine Miscellany. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 0-307-34635-8. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Coca Wine". www.cocaine.org. http://www.cocaine.org/cocawine.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-12. 

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