Talk:Vine-Glo

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 12:00, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

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Al Capone

• ... that Vine-Glo sold during Prohibition carried a warning telling people how to make wine from it and Al Capone (pictured) allegedly threatened to force it out of Chicago? Source: Grape Collective, A History of Wine in America. 2. University of California Press. pp. 29–30. ISBN 0520241762.

• Reviewed: SSA impersonation scam
• Comment: For either 1417 January or 25 January (Al Capone's birth/death dates)

Created by The C of E (talk). Self-nominated at 21:13, 20 December 2020 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, interesting, image in public domain and clear, copyvio due to one quote, hook in article and followed by 2 inline citations of which one needs subscription. I can see the information in the book on history of wine making which is cited following hook fact in article. QPQ provided. Al-Capone's article was interesting to read too. For either 1417 January or 25 January (Al Capone's birth/death dates) seems ok with me. Thank you. Whispyhistory (talk) 05:14, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

“Dry communities”

Please don’t just delete the tag that points to something that is unclear: please fix by way of explanation or link. 213.205.194.172 (talk) 23:28, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

It’s been changed, but it’s still not clear. What do you mean by a “dry community”? A town or urban area? A section of society (regardless of geography)? You need to clarify what you mean by this. 213.205.194.172 (talk) 11:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

"...because then it would turn into wine"

This might be from a sales pitch rather than the packaging. The words are ascribed to a salesperson here: https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=CHP19310808.2.37&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN---------- (discussed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/w9wd59/a_commonly_reposted_internet_claim_is_that_during/) Perhaps the salesperson was simply quoting the packaging, though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.105.198.90 (talk) 03:15, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

This does sound plausible, from the fact that nobody seems to have ever produced a photo of this wording appearing on the packaging, and that versions of the packaging that have been found (https://petermorwood.tumblr.com/post/648825783360602113/tldr-a-warning-did-exist-on-grape-bricks-but) don't include it.

Looking for sources closer to the time a couple of papers cite the quotation (some calling it a "warning" without saying whether it was printed) to Binkley's 1930 book Responsible Drinking, but I'm not seeing it there, only a mention of the Department of Agriculture giving what Binkley sees as "disguised instruction in wine making" by describing how to prevent fermentation.

I've found and added a quote of Vine-Glo newspaper ad that included a tip "to prevent fermentation", and reframed the "because then it would turn into wine" as a salesperson quote, citing that Chicago Packer article. --Belbury (talk) 21:16, 1 March 2025 (UTC)