The Story of the “Electronic Nose”—And A FREE Move!!

No, the “Electronic Nose” is not a bad sci-fi movie. It’s a new technology that is able to pinpoint where wine was made--even identifying the barrel where it was fermented!

The technique exploits the complex mix of thousands of compounds found in each bottle of wine that gives the wine the subtly different flavor.

Using the “electronic nose,” also known as a “mass spectrometer,” scientists from the University of Bourgogne, in Dijon, France analyzed the compounds in vaporised wine samples to produce detailed chemical signatures. These can then be matched against a database of characteristics to identify a wine's source.

This could be invaluable in proving the age of a wine. If it's proven to be younger than the claimed vintage of the wine, it must be a counterfeit.

This begs the question—will the mass spectrometer be mass produced for the average consumer?

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