Is it true that French wines have an ingredient that's also used in auto antifreeze? And US wine does not?!
Is it true that French wines have an ingredient that's also used in auto antifreeze? And US wine does not?
Answers: Although this is categorically not true there is, scarily, a basis for this belief/rumour/tale which involved Austria, not France.
Back in 1985 there was a scandal in Austria where some producers were adding diethylene glycol to wines to make them sweet... the producers got found out and needless to say the Austrian wine industry was decimated. It is recovering but it has been a long and slow process.
Couldn't find too many details on it on the web, but the site referenced gives a little on it. Source(s):
http://websites.uk-plc.net/the_wine_kell... No. Emphatically no! If it were chinese wine perhaps? Plain rubbish! Why should they loose their good reputation on top the french made super wine before the Americans. if anything french wine would more than likely be "cleaner" than us wine, they have been doing if for a really really long time, and i'm pretty sure france probably has something akin to the german beer purity laws for wine, which makes it even less likely. No, if that were true the country would abound in dead wine drinkers.