AI tackles fake wine

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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