Prohibition and Wine's Darkest Hour
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When you think of illicit substances that are shipped in brick form, wine probably doesn't come to mind first. And no, boxed wine doesn't count. During Prohibition, however, drinkers got around laws that banned alcohol by dissolving bricks of grape concentrate in water and fermenting them into wine.
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Original Title: TIL during Prohibition, winemakers sold “grape bricks” concentrated grape juice blocks with labels warning customers not to leave them in a cupboard for 20 days, lest they “accidentally” turn into wine.