Meet the new critic: the electronic tongue
Winemakers who make wines for critics, meet your new overlord: the electronic tongue!
Although artificial, or electronic, tongues have been developed before, researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark have a breakthrough in their application to wine. Now, proteins from human saliva can be mixed with wine in the artificial tongue that can measure the effect of wine’s astringency, or tannins, on the tongue via a gold-plated nanosensor.
So welcome to the the new era of wine reviewing, where, instead of nonsense wine descriptors, the robo-tongue can just cut straight to the chase and spit out scores!
On September 21st, 2014 at 9:50 pm ,RobinC wrote:
This seems at the same time complicated and simplistic. I’m guessing that no two people have the same saliva, so unless it’s my saliva they’re using, the wine calibrated to fit a saliva profile might not suit my tastes.
On October 1st, 2014 at 3:14 pm ,Wednesday’s Meritage – Wine Quiz Answer, WTSO Fall Cheapskate Marathon, Costco Wines and more | Talk-A-Vino wrote:
[…] one for today is about nanotechnologies. Okay, fine. Wine and nanotechnologies. As reported by Dr. Vino, scientists in Denmark are working on the electronic tongue, which will take the difficult task of […]