{"id":27302,"date":"2014-08-11T12:27:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27302"},"modified":"2014-08-11T12:27:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:27:01","slug":"the-science-of-wine-fingerprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/the-science-of-wine-fingerprints\/","title":{"rendered":"The science of &#8220;wine fingerprints&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the title of this post is a bit ahead of the facts: scientists are still developing ways to detect the differences in wine from various regions, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-28744460\" target=\"_blank\">they think they&#8217;re on the right track<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Malbecs from Argentina and California made by the same winemaker and using the same protocol had distinct molecular signatures and flavours.<\/p>\n<p>But the delicate aroma of a rare vintage can quickly be eroded by poor storage after bottling, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>Details were reported at the American Chemical Society meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the cynicism over wine critique &mdash; and the rather grandiose adjectives lavished upon certain appellations &mdash; it really does matter where your plonk comes from, according to the researchers from the University of California Davis.<\/p>\n<p>They are attempting to fingerprint &#8220;terroir&#8221; &mdash; the unique characteristics that the geography, geology and climate of a certain place bestows upon a wine.<\/p>\n<p>Subjective regional character is based on the appearance, aroma, taste and mouthfeel (texture) of the wine &mdash; all of which combine to create its flavour.<\/p>\n<p>But demand is growing for a more objective test &mdash; to help consumers bypass woolly terminology, protect artisan producers&#8217; intellectual property, and help auction houses detect fraud &mdash; a growing problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the title of this post is a bit ahead of the facts: scientists are still developing ways to detect the differences in wine from various regions, but they think they&#8217;re on the right track. Malbecs from Argentina and California made by the same winemaker and using the same protocol had distinct molecular signatures and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,131],"tags":[492,35,872],"class_list":["post-27302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-wine","tag-argentina","tag-california","tag-chemistry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-76m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27303,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27302\/revisions\/27303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}