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Vin Mariani (French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
: Mariani's wine
Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage often made of fermentation grape juice. The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients....
) was a tonic

Tonic

Tonic may refer to:*Tonic , a concept of musical theory*Tonic , an American post-grunge rock band*The Tonic, a Christian rapper and member of The Cross Movement...
created circa

Circa

Circa means "in approximately", generally referring to a year. It is widely used in genealogy and historical writing, when the dates of events are approximately known....
1863 by Angelo Mariani

Angelo Mariani

Angelo Mariani or Ange-Fran?ois Mariani was a France chemist, originally from the island of Corsica. He is most well known as the inventor of the first cocawine, Vin Mariani in 1863....
, a chemist who became intrigued with coca

Coca

Coca is a plant in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to north-western South America. The plant plays a significant role in traditional Andean culture....
and its economic potential after reading Paolo Mantegazza

Paolo Mantegazza

Paolo Mantegazza was a prominent Italy neurology, physiologist and anthropologist, noted for the isolation of cocaine from coca leaves and his experimental investigation into its effects on the human psyche....
’s paper on coca's effects. In 1863 Mariani started marketing a wine called Vin Mariani which was made from Bordeaux wine

Bordeaux wine

A Bordeaux wine is any wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France. Average vintages produce over 700 million bottles of Bordeaux wine, although in good vintages, this total can exceed over 900 million, ranging from large quantities of everyday table wine, to some of the most expensive and prestigious wines in the world....
treated with coca leaves.

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Vin Mariani (French

French language

Tonic

Tonic may refer to:*Tonic , a concept of musical theory*Tonic , an American post-grunge rock band*The Tonic, a Christian rapper and member of The Cross Movement...
created circa

Circa

Circa means "in approximately", generally referring to a year. It is widely used in genealogy and historical writing, when the dates of events are approximately known....
1863 by Angelo Mariani

Angelo Mariani

Coca

Paolo Mantegazza

Bordeaux wine

Ethanol

Ethanol, also called ethyl alcohol, pure alcohol, grain alcohol, or drinking alcohol, is a volatility , flammable, colorless liquid....
in the wine acted as a solvent and extracted the cocaine

Cocaine

Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine....
from the coca leaves, altering the drink’s effect. It originally contained 6 mg of cocaine per fluid ounce

Fluid ounce

A fluid ounce is a unit of volume in both the Imperial unit and the United States customary units systems. It is common to refer to the unit simply as an ounce, especially in cases where no confusion with the unit of mass is likely to occur....
of wine, but Vin Mariani which was to be exported contained 7.2 mg per ounce in order to compete with the higher cocaine content of similar drinks in the United States.

Popularity

Vin Mariani was very popular in its day, even among royalty such as Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

Victoria was from 20 June 1837 the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and from 1 May 1876 the first Empress of India of the British Raj until her death....
of Great Britain and Ireland. Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII , born Count Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903, succeeding Pope Pius IX....
and later Pope Saint Pius X

Pope Pius X

Pope St. Pius X , born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914, succeeding Pope Leo XIII ....
were both Vin Mariani drinkers. Pope Leo awarded a Vatican

Vatican City

Vatican City , officially the State of the Vatican City , is a Landlocked country sovereignty city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, the Capital of Italy....
gold medal to the wine, and also appeared on a poster endorsing it.

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb....
also endorsed the wine, claiming it helped him stay awake for longer hours.

Competition

This tonic may have inspired John S. Pemberton in 1885, with his cocawine

Cocawine

Coca wine was an alcoholic beverage that combined wine and cocaine. The most popular brand was Vin Mariani developed in 1863 by Corsican entrepreneur Angelo Mariani....
receipt called Pemberton's French Wine Coca

Pemberton's French Wine Coca

Pemberton's French Wine Coca was a cocawine created by the druggist John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola.It was an alcoholic beverage, mixed with coca, kola nut and damiana....
. Later that year, when Atlanta and Fulton County

Fulton County, Georgia

Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia . Its county seat is Atlanta, Georgia, the state capital and principal city of the Atlanta metropolitan area....
passed prohibition

Prohibition

Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, also known as The Noble Experiment, refers to a sumptuary law which prohibits alcohol....
legislation, Pemberton responded by developing Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is a carbonation soft drink sold in stores, restaurants and vending machines worldwide . It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke or as Cola or Pop....
, essentially a carbonated, non-alcoholic version of his French Wine Coca. The beverage was named Coca-Cola because the stimulant

Stimulant

Stimulant drugs are drugs that temporarily increase alertness and awareness. They usually have increased side-effects with increased effectiveness, and the more powerful variants are therefore often prescription medicines or illegal drugs....
s mixed in the beverage were coca

Coca

Coca is a plant in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to north-western South America. The plant plays a significant role in traditional Andean culture....
leaves

Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
from South America

South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
and kola nut

Kola nut

Kola nut is a genus of about 125 species of trees native to the tropical rainforests of Africa, classified in the family Malvaceae, subfamily Sterculioideae ....
s, the beverage's source of caffeine

Caffeine

Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid that acts as a psychoactive stimulant drug and a mild diuretic. Caffeine was discovered by a German chemist, Friedrich Ferdinand Runge, in 1819....
.

Therefore, Angelo Mariani is sometimes thought of as the "grandfather of Coca-Cola."