Word: vino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago an independent 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...
Last week U. S. Dry agents, spurred by complaints of the Anti-Saloon League, raided Vino Sano's sales office on lower Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, where a land office trade was being done. Arrested were the manager and two salesmen; seized were 3.000 bricks...