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The Wine Fraud That Went Too Far for Profits

This video explores the 1980s methanol wine scandal in Italy and Austria, when some producers secretly blended industrial methanol into cheap table wine to boost alcohol content and profits. Through historical accounts, court records, and contemporary news reports, it traces how contaminated bottles reached supermarkets and home dinner tables, leading to blindness, brain damage, and deaths across Europe as the toxic alcohol attacked the optic nerve and central nervous system. Placing this food safety disaster in its broader historical context, the documentary looks at the economic pressures on winemakers in the late Cold War era, the regulatory loopholes that allowed adulterated wine to circulate, and the forensic investigation that finally exposed the fraud. It also follows the legal aftermath, the role of public scandal in reshaping European wine laws, and how this tragedy permanently changed consumer trust in everyday products.