“One of the best producers of Burgundy was asking us if they could use our label on all their bottles. Then we can take an extra step so that when you buy the bottle, for example from a distributor in the UK or US, you can add the bottle to your wallet,” he says. “But now, the idea is that you Only take out when you need to drink the wine otherwise there is no point as you are removing the bottle from its true provenance.
Gaetano acknowledges that, strictly speaking, Cruet's system doesn't prevent dedicated fraudsters from altering the contents of a bottle (if they can circumvent the NFC tag in the neck), but says that trusted authentication will never reveal the wine's whereabouts. For also comes from not allowing things to go unaccounted for.
If you need to find out if Vine is the real deal, you'll need a different technical solution altogether. Some wineries have employed advanced printing techniques for their labels, including hologram embedding and printing with invisible inks, but the real prize is the authentication process for what's inside the bottle.
The number of different parameters to test – the age of the wine, its place of origin, its chemical composition – means that the problem is attacked in different ways. Adelaide University had a team able to display Absorption-transmission and excitation-emission matrix (A-TEM) spectroscopy, essentially a very sophisticated scan of a sample, can reliably detect the vintage year of a selection of Shiraz wines, as well as assign each a particular sub-year. -Can connect accurately with the field. Barossa Valley region.
similar, different studies have shown 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 various amino acids in wines, allowing scientists to identify different vintages and types. Get help.
The soil of a vineyard can be 'fingerprinted' in terms of the rainfall it experiences, with different regions having chemically different rainwater: a 2007 paper Discovered that analysis of 'stable isotopes' within water used to make wine can accurately distinguish between different regions of California and Oregon.
Perhaps surprisingly, even the most renowned experts admit that it may be impossible to detect a counterfeit by smell or taste, no matter how subtle the palette. But where mankind has lost its nose, a machine can still sniff out the truth. A team of academics from several institutions published a paper in 2023 It 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 particular estates on the left and right banks of the river.