Where was CocaCola invented?
When it comes to summer holidays, many people’s choice of ice-cold drink to cool themselves down, after beer and wine perhaps, is CocaCola.
In the wake of one of the world’s most famous brands 125th anniversary, the whereabouts of where the legendary drink was invented is being questioned. Where was CocaCola invented?
Despite the fact that official records show that CocaCola was created in Atlanta and the drink being synonymous with the USA, residents of Valencia in Spain are now claiming the legendary drink, of which 1.7 billion bottles are sold a day, was invented on Valencian soil in 1884.
One of the residents of the town of Bautista Aparici in the province of Valencia claims that his uncle, Ricardo Sanz together with his friend, Enrique Ortiz, created a distillery known as ‘Destileria Ayelo’, which was so distinct and popular in its taste, it was supplied to the royal palace.
The drink that Sanz and Ortiz produced was made by combining coca leaves from Peru with Kola nut strain, was the same dark colour as Coca-Cola and was named an uncannily similar “Nuez de Coca-Cola”.
In 1885, the year before Coca-Cola was officially launched, ‘Destileria Ayelo’ attended a drinks conference in Philadelphia.
In 1886 Coca-Cola were selling several drinks a day in one soda shop in Atlanta, whilst over in Spain, ‘Nuez de Coca-Cola’ had been patented and was not officially registered until 1903, 17 years after the drink had been registered in the US, with the recipe, according to the Coca-Cola website, being accredited to an American pharmacist named John Pemberton.
So when you are sipping a refreshing ice-cold Coca-Cola in a Spanish bar or on the balcony of your villa, watching the sun set behind the magical vista, spare a thought on to the whereabouts the legendary drink was invented.
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