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On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Angelica Hammer wrote:

> I  just heard a piece of information that might be of interest to us:
> If a batch of wine does not have the alcohol percentage that is advertised
> on the label they can add some pure alcohol to make it up. Guess what the
> pure alcohol is made of: grain!  Should we stop drinking wine because of
> this?

Uh, is this domestic or foreign?  There also was a scandal in Europe a
couple years ago about some wineries boosting the alcohol content with
methanol.  I have had *very* bad reactions with imported Chiantas, and
suspect that they were boosting then.  That sort of stuff isn't allowed
here in the States, and I briefly thought I had stumbled onto a great new
career as a wine taster for the federal government.  Anymore, I stay
with the domestic wines.  I think the domestic controls are tighter.

They can take away my bread, but they will have to pry the Gewurtztraminer,
the Liebfraumilch, and the Pastovino Barbarone (all domestic) out of my
cold, dead fingers.

The Bec
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