Yes, I did say at half price. There are companies that specialize in making custom blends of wines. Many of the wines that you purchase today are, in fact, a product of modern day processing. Let me tell you how you get the wines at half price.
     These companies have special Extracting machines that are able to take out different flavors from the wines or change a sweet wine to a tart wine. They can isolate just about any particular flavor, smell, smoothness, etc of wine. Then it is just chemicals that need to be mixed in the right order to produce “good” wine. Besides, who needs to ship all of the extra stuff that does not contribute to the flavor? Shipping is expensive. This is how you get “good wines” for a very low price.
     Idea One: EXTRACT the flavors from good Bulgarian wines. Work out the chemical mixture, buying the chemicals at wholesale, mix with alcohol, and here is a good Bulgarian wine at half the price!
     Idea Two: I could remove the liquids from the wine (i.e. water, alcohol, etc.), and then ship it as a powder. Even if we were to reduce the liquid weight by 2/3, the cost would be reduced greatly. (It is cheaper to buy water, and pure alcohol in America.) I would then RECONSTITUTE the wine here, sell it at half price and still make a nice profit. The best part is I don’t need expensive equipment to make it a CONCENTRATE, just a small heat source, containers, and let evaporation do the rest.
     I just need to buy the products from Bulgaria, in order to call it Bulgarian. My only concern is that, the Bulgarians will not buy the end product, saying it is not true Bulgarian wine. My question is “IF IT TASTED EXACTLY AS THE GOOD BULGARIAN WINES, WHAT DOES IT MATER WHAT I DID TO IT FIRST?”
     I went to extremes to prove a point that is really simple and of common sense. Why did I do this now? Simple, let’s look at what people have been saying about Mangosteen juice. “The juice sold at Costco, Hi-Health or GNC is the same as Xango.” You will see that by using the same ideas (that these other companies used,) on “good Bulgarian wines” is the stupidest idea. We all know that it won’t work on “good Bulgarian wine” and it won’t work in Mangosteen juice. See what the labels are saying.
     Costco – Naturally Thai Mangosteen, around $20.00. Look at the label. See the word EXTRACT? Now review idea one on “good Bulgarian wines.”
     Hi-Health and GNC – Xantho Splash, also around $20.00 dollars each. Look at the label: Mangosteen Fruit Juice Drink. Powered with Thai Mangosteen Fruit Juice Concentrate. Made with Organic Mangosteen Juice. Review idea two on”good Bulgarian wines.”
     MangoXan Juice by Pure Fruit Technologies around $20.00 each. Look at the label: Reconstituted Garcinia mangostana (Mangosteen) Puree from Mangosteen Whole Fruit, Pear Juice and Puree from concentrates Blueberry juice from Concentrate Red Sour Cherry Juice from Concentrate Red Grape Juice from Concentrate Cranberry juice from Concentrate Pineapple Juice from Concentrate Star fruit Juice from Concentrate Lychee Fruit Juice from Concentrate Garcinia mangostana (Mangosteen) Peel extract, other ingredients: Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C). No GMO. No preservatives.
     Look at idea one and two from “good Bulgarian wines.”
     TIME FOR A NEW IDEA
     Xango - You will not find the words extract, reconstituted, or concentrate. This is because Xango was the first to market the Mangosteen juice. They went to Wild Flavors (who make Sobe, and many other products world wide) and asked them to make a drink from the whole fruit that people would like. Xango, along with Wild Flavors, patented the whole process and ingredients in over 170 countries. (Yes, your are right. Xango did this so no one else could make the same product. Being first has its advantages.)

     What does Xango do?
     1) They own most of the Mangosteen trees.
     2) Right after the fruit is picked, the whole fruit is turned into a puree.
     3) Since they do not change the product or add preservatives, they freeze it by flash freezing. (Flash freezing preserves as much of the natural state as possible. Some amphibians use this technology to live thru the winter.)
     4) They ship the frozen puree to Wild Flavors.
     5) The puree is heated to the required temperature by law for the shortest time allowed.
     6) The product is then mixed with other natural fruit juices to make Xango.
     As you can see: no concentrates, no extracts, only pure products.
     Just like you can not modify good Bulgarian wines, you can not modify what Xango has produced. So the question now is “Are you really saving money, when you buy the other stuff?”
     One more thing: did you know that the Xanthones are not affected by alcohol? Yes, some of the other nutritional stuff will be damaged, but the Xanthones will not. We drink Xango mostly for the Xanthones, and for what the medical society research has been proving to be most beneficial for everyone. This means that since Xango has the Mangosteen fruit in its purest form, it can be mixed into different drinks. Think of the book that could be written. “The Mangosteen Bartenders Guide”. I might work on that, or wait for someone else to write it.
     If you have not yet seen the health benefits of Mangosteen or the Xanthones from the fruit, search the medical sites on line with those key words. Ask you doctor what sites they use to look up information, and see for yourself.

By Mark L. Orris

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