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Word: muscatel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California concern went a step farther toward simplified wine making. They put on the market a patented grape concentrate in solid form about the size of a pound of print butter. Known as Vino Sano, selling at $2 each, these nonalcoholic wine bricks were flavored sherry, champagne, port, claret, muscatel, et al. Instructions came in the form of warnings against dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, adding sugar, shaking daily and decanting after three weeks. Unless the buyer eschewed these processes, 13%, wine would be produced. Vino Sano's "Don'ts" were designed to prove that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Wine Bricks | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...problem is solved at last. Yours again . . . always legal . . . (by the distinct provisions of Section 29 of the Prohibition Act*). . . . Absolute satisfaction or your money back. . . . Eight varieties: PORT, MUSCATEL. TOKAY. VIRGINIA DARE, CLARET. SAUTERNE, BURGUNDY, RIESLING. Five gallon keg: $14.75-Ten gallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Simply Remove the Bung | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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