To: ConservativeMan55
French wine is cleansed in pigs blood. Proof please.
21 posted on
02/13/2003 5:04:52 AM PST by
AppyPappy
(Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.)
To: AppyPappy
It was bovine blood. It was used to "clarify" wine. The practice was outlawed in the EU in 1997 for fear of Mad Cow Disease. There was a story of some small operations in France still using blood. The wine is being destroyed. I'll look for a link to the story.
25 posted on
02/13/2003 5:07:54 AM PST by
Grit
(Tolerance for all but the intolerant...and those who tolerate intolerance etc etc)
To: AppyPappy
27 posted on
02/13/2003 5:10:26 AM PST by
Grit
(Tolerance for all but the intolerant...and those who tolerate intolerance etc etc)
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