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Encyclopedia: Vin Mariani

Vin Mariani (French: Mariani's wine) was a tonic created circa 1863 by Angelo Mariani, a chemist who became intrigued with coca and its economic potential after reading Paolo Mantegazza’s paper on coca's effects. In 1863 Mariani started marketing a wine called Vin Mariani which was made from Bordeaux wine treated with coca leaves. The ethanol in the wine acted as a solvent and extracted the cocaine from the coca leaves, altering the drink’s effect. It originally contained 6 mg of cocaine per fluid ounce of wine, but Vin Mariani which was to be exported contained 7.2 mg per ounce in order to compete with the higher cocaine content of similar drinks in the United States.

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Cocawine

Cocawine was an alcoholic beverage that combined wine and cocaine. The most popular brand was Vin Mariani developed in 1863 by Corsican entrepreneur Angelo Mariani. It was a popular drink at the time. In Atlanta, John Pemberton, a pharmacist, developed his own cocktail based on Vin Mariani. It...

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Testimonial

endores "Vin Mariani", a cocaine-laden patent medicine. Testimonials were a common feature of... most valuable testimonial ever was acquired by the makers of Vin Mariani , a cocaine-laced patent...

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Pope Leo XIII

awarded a gold medal [2]to a fashionable nineteenth century cocaine-based drink called Vin Mariani...

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Cocaine

wine called Vin Mariani which had been treated with coca leaves. The ethanol in the wine acted as a...] whitening of the teeth". A chemist named Angelo Mariani who read Mantegazza's paper about coca...

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