• @[email protected]
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    7 days ago

    Actually, they didn’t use wine, but grape juice (mustum) as it contains more sugar.
    Cheap white wine containing lead acetate as sweetener instead of expensive sugar was also responsible for the fate of our dear composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      97 days ago

      Interesting, I didn’t know that!