Talk:Wine cooler

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This sentence is ambiguous: was it traditionally home-made starting in the 1980s, or was it traditionally homemade, but since the 1980s sold by commercial distributors? I don't really know anything about wine coolers, so I couldn't say how far its history goes back, but it'd be good if someone would clarify. --98.248.43.68 (talk) 21:50, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"wine cooler" is called "Bowle" in Germany and should be linked with that German article.

They have been popular in Germany since at least the postwar era (not since 2004 as this article states).

79.227.158.171 (talk) 19:27, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is one of those pages which illustrates how US-centered this wiki really is. The term as on this page is virtually unknown in the UK, where a wine cooler is something you put your bottle of white wine in when eating at table. Here that meaning is a mere subsection of the wine accessory page! Macdonald-ross (talk) 07:48, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"wine cooler is an alcoholic beverage made from wine and fruit juice, often in combination with a carbonated beverage and sugar. It is often of lower strength alcoholic content.[1]"

While this may have been true at the time of the source's publishing (1986?) it is certainly not as true today. I remember first hearing about "wine coolers" when my father mixed wine, fruit juices and ginger ale to take on X-country skiing trips beginning in the late 1960's which puts the 1980's date into question for me, but I know that would be original research. There's got to be something reliable out there indicating an earlier origin nonetheless.

Commercially produced wine coolers in the U.S. However, never had any wine in them that I am aware of. Bartles and James (do they even make that stuff anymore? Because I can't find it in my town anywhere anymore!), was the earliest brand I ever heard of. B&J's and every other U.S. Brand I have ever seen since contains no wine at all, but is labeled as "flavored malt beverage," which is essentially flavored beer, NOT a wine cooler at all. I think the article should reflect this unfortunate truth.

It's propaganda sponsored y Diageo, one of the biggest alcohol-producers worldwide. Research by Süddeutsche Zeitung proved that Diageo (the producer of alcopops like Smirnoff Ice) had sponsored a campaign whose aim it was to convince the German public that the alcopop-tax was useless. Therefore, they made up some figures that seemed to show that young people started drinking wine coolers. But a study by the German government (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung) proved that the average weekly alcohol intake of 12-17-year olds dropped drastically after the implementation of the alcopop-tax: alcohol intake by alcopops dropped by 6.3 g whereas the alcohol intake by beer-mix or wine coolers rose only by +1.4 (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkopop) So ask yourself: Who on earth could possibly be interested in making the public in English speaking countries believe that there is absolutely no way of preventing teenagers from drinking too much by raising taxes? Or, as romans simply asked: Cui bono? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carlos9999 (talk • contribs) 08:49, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]