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December 19, 2008

Growing heavy

A short cut to fine wine, yes. But the secret to removing a wine's Canadianity remains elusive.

The secret ... is an electric field. Pass an undrinkable, raw red wine between a set of high-voltage electrodes and it becomes pleasantly quaffable. "Using an electric field to accelerate ageing is a feasible way to shorten maturation times and improve the quality of young wine," says Hervé Alexandre, professor of oenology at the University of Burgundy, close to some of France's finest vineyards.

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Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 19, 2008 07:17 AM

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