🆔 🍷 AI can now identify a wine

THE HEADLINES 🗞

Christie’s has concluded an action of wines belonging to wine lover, Dr. Botenga, spanning 6 decades and achieving a total of £6,116,612. The wines feature mainly from the 1940s to the 1980s. Here is a charming clip of Botenga in his cellar:

🇮🇹 In case you missed it… Italy has finally won its dispute against Australia regarding the exporting of sparkling wine as ‘Prosecco’. (Meininger’s)

🆔 AI CAN CONFIRM A WINE’S IDENTITY. A machine-learning algorithm was able to tell which estate 80 Bordeaux red wines came from by assessing their unique chemical ‘signature’. (New Scientist)

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🎨 ART

The 2021 Mouton Label

Jane Anson discusses the 2021 Mouton Rothschild:

• Created by Japanese artist, Chiharu Shiota

• Inspired by the estate’s dependency on the weather and mother nature

• The fragile silhouette of a human figure faces a red cloud of grapes, to reflect the balance between humanity and nature. Too tight a grip and the thread will break, too loose and the cloud will blow away 💨💨

Source: Decanter (modified)

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📲 TECHNOLOGY

🤖 The chatGPT equivalent for wine…

The new app, Preferabli, looks like a genuinely useful product for wine consumers. (The Buyer)

How does it work?

1. Type any wine into the chat box

2. Preferabli will recommend wines with similar taste characteristics as the reference wine and food pairing recommendations

3. Users can ask follow-up questions

Source: The Buyer (modified)

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ℹ️ FACT

💪🏾 Survival of the fittest

Angelica is a fortified wine (like Sherry 🇪🇸) made from the oldest producing vine in the US – the Ramona vine – believed to have been planted in the 1770s. The wine is produced just like Sherry, using the Solera system. Only 336 bottles available 💎

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🔊 QUOTED

NYT wine writer, Eric Asimov, on food and wine pairing in interview for Wine Industry Advisor.

Tend to agree with Asimov on this one 👍

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Until next week! Thanks for reading :)