Same peril with the strong Alicante dessert wine, ten drops of which were long reckoned to be one of nature's surest cures.
Alicante is a cherry-flavored diet soda. 
mnli hypothesis: Alicante is a cherry-flavored diet soda.  premise: Same peril with the strong Alicante dessert wine, ten drops of which were long reckoned to be one of nature's surest cures.