Two popes, actually. The brand was Vin Mariani, the brainchild of French chemist and winemaker Angelo Mariani. In the mid- to late 1800s, the beverage was widely circulated in France, the United ...

Cocaethylene works like cocaine, but with more euphoria. So in 1863, when Parisian chemist Angelo Mariani combined coca and wine and started selling it, a butterfly did flap its wings.

In 1863, an obscure chemist named Angelo Mariani from Corsica arrived in Paris. Coming from a long line of doctors and chemists, Mariani set up shop in a modest Parisian quarter and began unlocking ...

DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION Back in the mid-1800s, a chemist called Angelo Mariani created Vin Mariani, a cocaine-infused wine – and it was loved by Presidents and Popes alike. The Andean coca leaf had ...

A good example was the Vin Mariani developed by the Corsican Angelo Mariani. Vin Mariani was a concoction of cocaine in claret, which was certainly a very reasonable idea. Not surprisingly the ...

Windsor business owner Angelo Mariani didn’t think it was possible for someone to steal an in-ground pool — but teenage culprits proved him wrong. Now the owner of Pools By Angelo is ...

French chemist Angelo Mariani created one of the most successful of these. In 1863, he marketed a Bordeaux wine with coca he called Vin Mariani. The quantity of cocaine in Vin Mariani was small but ...

He hit on Vin Mariani, a massively popular cocaine and wine beverage marketed by a Parisian chemist named Angelo Mariani. Ever the savvy medicinal magnate, Mariani extolled his product to the ...