telegraph.co.uk — A rare wine merchant has joined forces with nuclear scientists to develop a 21st-century tool for unmasking counterfeit vintage wines.The technique developed by French scientists for a British wine expert consists of zapping bottles with beams of charged ions generated by a particle accelerator.
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thescimitarSep 5, 2008
@Hello: You're more correct than you've gotten credit for, at least in diggs. The vast number of wine consumers can't tell the difference between an expensive and a cheap wine, and if they can, they often like cheap wines better. Even wineyards with long histories of exceptional (though not necessarily popular) wines have undertaken changing their varieties to encourage greater consumption by Americans.The ratio of people who blather on about wine to the number of people who actually can tell the difference between a good wine and a cheap wine (not necessarily mutually exclusive, mind you) is very high indeed.There are plenty of 10 dollar bottles that I have enjoyed and don't give a crap what the wine congnoscenti may say about their value.Wine is meant to be enjoyed. Sure, there are great and complex wines that are indeed works of art. But if you're the kind of person who purchases a case of wines on name alone... because they're what's "in"... then the veracity of the vintage is wholly irrelevant.
brettg102Sep 5, 2008
God I love the Queen's English! ::moves to Britain::
stormtrooprSep 5, 2008
OM NOM NOM NOM
ssukSep 5, 2008
Bring "u"s.
sillywombatSep 6, 2008
So, just use old wine bottles?You can still beat the system!