Vin Mariani (France: Mariani wine) is a tonic and patent drug made around 1863 by Angelo Mariani, a French chemist who became interested in coca and its economic potential after reading Paolo Mantegazza's paper on the effects of coca. In 1863, Mariani began marketing a wine called Vin Tonique Mariani (ÃÆ' la Coca du PÃÆ' Â © rou) made from Bordeaux wine and coca leaf.
Ethanol in wine acts as a solvent and extracts cocaine from coca leaves, altering the effects of beverages. It initially contained 6 mg of cocaine per ounce of wine (211.2 mg/L), but Vin Mariani to be exported contained 7.2 mg per ounce (253.4 mg/L), to compete with higher cocaine similar in the United States. The ad for Vin Mariani claims that it will restore health, strength, energy, and vitality.
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Mariani markets Vin Mariani for a number of ailments, heralding her ability to boost energy, appetite, and mood. It was promoted as a performance enhancer for the creative and athletes, and supported by many famous people of its time. Mariani requested testimony from various European celebrities, including members of various royal families, politicians, artists, writers, and other household names, and printed them in newspapers and magazines as advertisements. He claims to have collected more than four thousand such support.
Pope Leo XIII and later Pope Saint Pius X was a drinker of Vin Mariani. Pope Leo appears on a poster that supports wine, and gives the Vatican gold medal to Mariani to create it. Thomas Edison claimed it helped him stay awake longer. Ulysses S. Grant drank Vin Mariani while writing his memoir towards the end of his life. Jules MÃÆ'Â © line, the French prime minister, drank wine despite the opposite of anti-alcohol.
Other figures supporting Vin Mariani include Zola's mile, Victorien Sardou, Henri Rochefort, and Charles Gounod, all of whom wrote testimonials that appeared as Vin Mariani commercials.
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This tonic proved to inspire the 1885 John C. Pemberton cocoa wine recipe called Pemberton's French Wine Coca. Later that year, when Atlanta and Fulton County, Georgia, passed the ban legislation, Pemberton responded by developing a non-alcoholic alcoholic version of his French Wine Coca. The drink is named Coca-Cola, because the stimulants mixed in the drink are South American coca leaves and kola nuts from Africa, a source of caffeine drinks.
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External links
- Official website
- The Nonist Ã, Â »Vin Mariani
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