We know that bank notes can be forged – but what about wine?
Fake wine is a thing – and it’s a problem.
Some unscrupulous traders have been known to re-label cheaper vintages and try to pass it off as something far more expensive – but proving it is difficult.
Now a team at the University of Geneva, together with the University of Bordeaux, believes it has cracked the problem using artificial intelligence.
The system can analyse a highly complex mixture of molecules that make up the wine which creates a digital fingerprint.
They tested the system on 80 different wines and 12 different vintages from 7 wineries and identified all of them successfully.
The system should be able to spot a fake easily.
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