Science and wine
Well how do you like that. French scientists are using particle accelerators to help authenticate vintage wines. As if the French weren’t big enough wine snobs to begin with. Not to mention that somebody paid for this research.
Don’t get me wrong, I like a good glass of wine now and again. But I am not a sommelier by any stretch. So forgive me if I find this new technique – or even the fact that it’s ‘needed’ – a little odd.
So how do they do it? They test the age of the glass in wine bottles by placing them …read more
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