vino chinato
ingredient / ingredient-vino-chinato
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Vino chinato is an Italian type of aromatised wine prepared principally with cinchona bark (china), with bitter plants such as gentian root and rhubarb added. Barolo Chinato from Piedmont is a well-known example. The Treccani encyclopedia lists vino chinato as one of the formulations of cinchona bark in modern pharmacology. Individual trademarks and products, such as Barolo Chinato, are treated as the scope of this type rather than as entities.
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Vino chinato is an Italian type of aromatized wine that uses cinchona bark. An old Treccani encyclopedia entry lists vino chinato alongside decoction, elixir, and tincture as forms in which cinchona bark is prescribed. This description derives from a 1930s edition and reflects an old classification of preparations; it does not describe a taste evaluation.
The 1892 edition of the official pharmacopoeia of the Kingdom of Italy records a preparation method using 1 part cinchona bark to 30 parts Marsala wine, steeping the cinchona in the wine for 10 days and then straining it. The 1902 and 1909 editions carry on with the same proportions and method. These entries show how to make it but do not state bitterness as a matter of taste.
Sources for this overview
Checked for this overview: Matched the point that Treccani lists vino chinato as a form in which cinchona bark is prescribed, and the limitation that this is an old classification of preparations, not a taste evaluation.
Farmacopea ufficiale del regno d'Italia
Checked for this overview: Matched the 1892 preparation method of 1 part cinchona bark to 30 parts Marsala, steeped for 10 days, and the absence of any statement of bitterness.
Farmacopea Ufficiale del Regno d'Italia (2a edizione, 1902)
Checked for this overview: Matched that the 1902 edition has the same proportions and wording.
Farmacopea Ufficiale del Regno d'Italia (3a edizione, 1909)
Checked for this overview: Matched that the 1909 edition also has the same proportions and does not mention bitterness.
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vino chinato →is defined in a dictionary …→ Cinchona succirubra (bark extract) →— sensory attribute→ bitterness
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Scope: The entry in the 1892 edition. This entry contains no explicit statement of taste (bitterness or otherwise).
Note: Connected to the existing ingredient-vino-chinato entity. The fact that this entry does not state bitterness explicitly is recorded in the evidence's finding_paraphrase.
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ingredient-vino-chinato —is_documented_in→ "Listed in the first official Pharmacopoeia of the Kingdom of Italy (1892) as "Vino Chinato (Vinum Chinatum)," prepared by macerating cinchona bark in Marsala wine."Scope: A comparison of the Farmacopea Ufficiale's first edition (1892), 2nd edition (1902), and 3rd edition (1909)
Note: None of the editions' VINO CHINATO entries contain an explicit statement of taste (bitterness or otherwise) — a negative finding, of the same type as the existing claim (w58h4b) on the vino chinato entry documented in the 1892 Farmacopea.
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ingredient-vino-chinato —is_documented_in→ "In the 2nd (1902) and 3rd (1909) editions of the Farmacopea Ufficiale as well, "Vino Chinato (Vinum Chinatum)", prepared by macerating cinchona bark in Marsala wine, continues to be listed with the same ratio (cinchona bark 1 : Marsala wine 30) and method as the first edition (1892)."Culture (1)
Scope: Treccani encyclopedia, entry "china" (Enciclopedia Italiana)
Note: [Discourse note] 'eupeptico,' 'stimulant,' and 'stomachic' are a paraphrase of the dictionary's (an old Enciclopedia Italiana entry's) classificatory description; this project is not verifying or asserting any pharmacological effect. Because this source differs in character from the existing ingredient-cinchona-extract entry (Japan's List of Existing Food Additives definition), the two are connected via object_entity_id without conflating their descriptions.
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ingredient-vino-chinato —is_defined_in_dictionary_as→ ingredient-cinchona-extract