Robot Tongue Identifies Spanish Wines

The electronic tongue achieves this feat through electrochemical analysis. Since cava wines are categorized by the amount of sugar added (ranging from Brut Nature, sugarless, up through Brut, Dry, and Sweet, which may have 50 grams of sugar per liter or more), if the tongue can detect sugar concentrations, it’s able to infer the type of wine…

Believe it or not, the quest for an electronic sommelier is a (relatively) old one. The Barcelona team, in a paper published on their work, link to several others, including one dating back to 1999. The other studies differ in a few ways, though, focusing on wines from different regions, or different properties of a given bottle — the features of its foam, for instance, or the volatile and nitrogen compounds in the wine. The other studies also tended to use very different techniques, such as mass spectrometry, which separates heavy substances from lighter ones.

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Robot Tongue Identifies Spanish Wines
Robot Tongue Identifies Spanish Wines

Spanish researchers have developed an electronic tongue that can identify different types of cava, a sparkling wine produced in the Catalonia region of Spain. Scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona said that the tongue



electronic 'tongue' to taste cava
electronic 'tongue' to taste cava

(CNN) -- Scientists in Spain say they have developed an electronic "tongue" that can identify different types of the Spanish sparkling wine cava -- a task more usually left to the skilled palate of the sommelier.



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