Detecting wine forgeries.(Brief Article)

From: Wines & Vines | Date: November 1, 2001| Author: Smith, Frank | Copyright information

With bottles of rare vintage wines selling for thousands of dollars, wine forgery is becoming a very tempting criminal activity. Until recently, forgery has been very difficult to detect, let alone prove beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law. But science is coming to the rescue.

European chemists are developing ways of finger printing wine by measuring the occurrence of site-specific isotopes in wine samples, and at least one Australian wine company is planning to ad...

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