[Sca-cooks] Is this a wine myth?

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

Well, there are a LOT of recipes for improving bad wine, wine that's 
gone off, etc. the period sources, especially the English ones.  Some of 
them do include adding spices.


> served hot, which is rather odd as we are now well and
> truly into Spring.  As she discusses mulled wine she
> states, and I'm paraphrasing here as she has
> copywrited this, that in the Victorian times wine
> would spoil quickly as it was stored in oak casks and
> they had yet to discover the preservative benefit of
> adding sulfites to the young wine.  As a result they
> had a lot of spoiled wine on hand and so merchants,
> being the enterprising souls that they are, masked the
> off flavor by heating the spoiled wine and mulling it
> with a mixture of spices.
> 
> Is it just me or is this truly the load of bunk I
> think it is?
> 
> Eibhlin, wine lover but never a vintner.
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