Coca-Cola May Get Boozy in Japan With Bubbly Alcoholic Drink

NEW YORK (AP) —
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A worker watches a product line at a Coca-Cola plant in Ebina, near Tokyo. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

Coca-Cola may be getting into the booze business again by developing a bubbly alcoholic drink in Japan.

The soda maker, best known for Coke, Sprite and Fanta, says it’s experimenting with a canned beverage that would be a mix of sparkling water and an alcoholic Japanese drink. The Atlanta-based company declined to say when the drink may launch or what it would be called.

Coca-Cola Co. sold wine about 40 years ago, but got out of that business in 1983. Last year, it launched a line of fruity alcohol mixers in Spain.

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