This section is from the book "Fermented Alcoholic Beverages, Malt Liquors, Wine, And Cider", by C. A. Crampton. Also available from Amazon: Fermented Beverage Production, Second Edition.
No test for free tartaric acid was obtained with any of the samples, which would seem to indicate that none of the Mines were artificial wines, in the make-up of which free tartaric acid is very apt to figure.
All of the samples of red wines, about forty, were submitted to a search for aniline coloring matters, which resulted in the demonstration that one sample out of the forty, No. 4996, was colored with an aniline dye-stuff, probably fuchsine.
Baumert found one of his eight samples to be colored artificially with an aniline dye.
No search was made for foreign vegetable coloring matters.
 
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