Jancis Robinson on the Demon Drink (HQ678)

Published 1988: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 208 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on the dust jacket. (HQ678)

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In 1988 I wrote a book called The Demon Drink about the defining ingredient of all alcoholic drinks. It did not exactly fly off the shelves, and at one wine tasting soon after publication I was approached by an elderly fellow taster who hissed at me, ‘How could you?’

Now that the World Health Organization is waging a war on alcohol, asserting that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption (a bit like crossing the road, then), wine drinkers are being forced to confront the least palatable aspect of their favourite drink: that it contains a toxic dr-ug.

The WHO message makes a good headline, one that has been widely circulated without comment or analysis, with the result that some countries have already reacted. The Finnish alcohol monopoly Alko justifies its role as ‘protecting’ Finns from alcohol. And, in a television segment featuring wine-drinking, the Dutch are being told that this will expose them to seven different cancers.

https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/demon-drink-over-demonised