Wine-bot Developed
By Tim on Jul 29, 2006 in Wine News
I’m interested in the intersection between wine and technology so when I saw this story on Digg yesterday I had to check it out (also covered on Wine Life Today and Slashfood). It seems some Japanese engineers have developed a wine tasting robot that can be used to detect fraud. In it’s early state, it can identify the unique organic fingerprint of 30 wines in less than a minute. This might be useful if it can find a doctored Barolo, Bordeaux or Burgundy, but the complexity of blends and thousands of wine varietals will take years to perfect. It’s still a pretty interesting idea that I’ll keep an eye on…
