The Electronic Wine Tongue

I believe the title of the post says it all. Well, most of it anyway. According to Science Daily, a new electronic gizmo being referred to as the electronic tongue has the ability to not just taste wine, but to also tell you exactly where and when it came from. The technology has the potential to be groundbreaking within the industry. As I've mentioned in earlier posts, wine forgery is rampant amongst collectors and people either are or aren't able to tell the difference between cheap and expensive wines . . . depending upon who's doing the reporting.

That being said, the wine tongue is actually a pretty neat-o little toy. It consists of six different sensors designed to detect substances characteristic of certain varieties. This means that if you're served a bottle of 1977 Lafitte and you're not 100% that it's authentic . . . pull out the wine tongue and give it the ultimate test. Wow, if that's not indicative of the fact that we are, in fact, living in the future . . . I don't know what is. Except maybe flying cars.