Wine scientists discover appellation 'chemical fingerprint'
Two forensic scientists at the University of Western Australia have found a way to prove the origin of wine chemically.
Frank Smith is an Australian wine writer who covered several wine news stories for Decanter.com between 2006 and 2009. He covered leaps in Australian wine technology, such as the discovery of a biochemical mechanism that controls grape ripening and the use of mass spectrometry to determine the chemical ‘fingerprint’ of 400 wines from around Australia.
Two forensic scientists at the University of Western Australia have found a way to prove the origin of wine chemically.
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