Artificially aging wine via ultrasound

Anticitizen

The miracle machine that turns cheap plonk into vintage wine - in just half an hour

Inventors say a bottle of any bargain booze can be transformed in just 30 minutes, using space-age ultrasound technology.

The £350 gadget - which looks like an ordinary ice bucket - recreates the effects of decades of aging by colliding alcohol molecules inside the bottle.

I don't know enough about how wine ages to debate the above, but the following set the alarm bells off in my head:

'I have even tried it with orange juice after I saw a similar device being used in the US. It didn't just make the juice taste fresher, it made it look brighter too.'

Mmm-hmm....

Greg Bernhardt

True, how does aging orange juice make it taste fresher?

skeptic2

My understanding is that wine ages by the acids and alcohol in the wine reacting slowly and producing esters which gives older wines their fragrances. I don't know how ultrasound would do that.

drezz1

It's a complex chemical process and this product is bogus. Some beers age in the same way.

drezz1

'It works on any alcohol that tastes better aged. Even a bottle of paint-stripper whisky can taste like an 8-year-aged single malt.'

This some kind of joke?

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Greg Bernhardt Admin Blog Entries: 5	True, how does aging orange juice make it taste fresher?

skeptic2	My understanding is that wine ages by the acids and alcohol in the wine reacting slowly and producing esters which gives older wines their fragrances. I don't know how ultrasound would do that.

drezz1	Artificially aging wine via ultrasound It's a complex chemical process and this product is bogus. Some beers age in the same way.