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Is it true that cow blood is added to red wine to made it colour deeper?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.WHAAAAAT? I have never ehard that one. I'm by no means a viticulturist but I don't think that is true... I was told that blood is added to bovril / marmite too... but i think thats a fallcy also...or at least i hope so.
Mayeb someone out there disagrees and can put us both right reagrding the wine / marmite theory?
Mayeb someone out there disagrees and can put us both right reagrding the wine / marmite theory?
Apparently it used to:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/sto ry/0,,2065118,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/sto ry/0,,2065118,00.html
i was working in Italy in the early 70s when a storm broke over one of the country's leading and most respected wine companies who, after a poor grape harvest, were caught putting cattle blood in their red wine and ammonia in their white wine.
The public temporarily lost confidence in the Italian wine industry, and the government had to introduce new classifications for wines with even stricter controls.
The public temporarily lost confidence in the Italian wine industry, and the government had to introduce new classifications for wines with even stricter controls.