“One of the best producers in Burgundy was asking us if they could use our label on all their bottles. Then we can create an extra step so that when you buy a bottle, let’s say from a distributor in the UK or the US, you can add the bottle to your wallet,” he says. “But now, the idea is that when you Take the bottle out only if you want to drink the wine otherwise there is no point because you are removing the bottle from the perfect provenance chain.
Gaetano admits that, strictly speaking, Currated’s system won’t prevent dedicated fraudsters from altering the contents of the bottle (if they can intercept the NFC tag in the neck), but says that reliable authentication will never allow the wine’s origins to be unaccounted for. comes from allowing for
If you find yourself needing to find out if a wine is the real deal, you’ll need a different tech solution entirely. Some wineries employ advanced printing techniques for their labels, embedding holograms and printing with invisible ink, but the real prize is a certification process for what’s inside the bottle.
The number of different parameters to test — the wine’s age, its place of origin, its chemical composition — means that the problem is attacked in different ways. There was a team from the University of Adelaide Able to demonstrate that absorption-transmission and excitation-emission matrix (A-TEM) spectroscopy, a very fine scan of a sample, can reliably determine the vintage year of a selection of Shiraz wines, each belonging to a specific sub-type of Barossa. -Connects correctly to the field. Valley area.
Similarly, different Studies have shown that nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, which works along the same lines as an MRI scanner, can detect different levels of deuterium, a hydrogen isotope, and different amino acids in wine, scientists Enables different vintages and varieties to be identified.
A vineyard’s terroir can be “fingerprinted” in terms of rainfall, with different regions having chemically different rainwater: A 2007 paper showed that “stable isotope” analysis of water used for winemaking could accurately distinguish between different regions in California and Oregon.
Perhaps surprisingly, even the most renowned experts admit that it can be impossible to detect fakes by smell or taste, no matter how delicate the palette. But where mankind’s nose has been lost, a machine can still sniff out the truth. A team of academics from several institutions published a Paper in 2023 who showed that by using a method called gas chromatography to analyze the aroma profiles of 80 Bordeaux wines, they could distinguish between vintages from seven specific estates on the left and right banks of the river.
