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The Wine That Tasted Like Antifreeze: Austria's 1985 Betrayal
The Wine That Tasted Like Antifreeze: Austria's 1985 Betrayal
Sweetness, body and a faintly syrupy mouthfeel were being sold across Europe - until routine lab tests found an industrial compound used in antifreeze at 48 grams per liter in a bottle from Burgenland. How did diethylene glycol, a known toxic solvent tied to historical mass poisonings, become the shortcut that produced millions of falsified bottles and destroyed an industry?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from a weak 1982 harvest to the June 27, 1985 laboratory result that triggered a public health alert in…
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