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Fast Track to Fine Wine?
wombatmobile writes "Hiroshi Tanaka, president of Innovative Design and Technology, claims to have perfected a machine that can transform a bottle of just-fermented Beaujolais Nouveau into a fine, mellow wine in seconds. From the article: 'The road, however, won't be an easy one: the company has brought the machine around to Japanese wine producers, restaurants and even sake rice wine and "shochu" sweet potato spirit distillers, but so far only a small shochu maker in southern Japan has agreed to get involved.'
So who else read the headline and thought it was a story about running Windows apps on your MacIntel?
Only problem is that drinkers must be accelerated to relativistic speeds to be effective. Innovative Design and Technology is currently looking for funding to clear this final, minor hurtle to the process.
I wonder if they've learned from the Simpsons and are just adding antifreeze...
Shows what you know! Alcoholics Anonymous have been running the industry from behind the scenes for years!
James P. Barrett
... i was wondering for a second what tha kazaa guys had against that emulator thingy
I sense a beer drinker. If they ever come up with a way to turn fine British beer into Budwiser I'll let you know.
I once ran across - in an upscale liquor shop, no less- a brand of wine which was called "Cheap White Wine". My palate isn't sophisticated enough to comment on the wine's body, aroma, etc., but said wine was indeed white, was indeed cheap, and the label was printed on something which resembled a paper bag in both texture and color.
Naturally, I had to buy it. If nothing else, everyone got a laugh out of it, and it was refreshing to see that truth in advertising does exist.
Was I the only one thinking FastTrack wanted to fine the Wine project for something?
Why is this on here? We are nerds, we don't care about wine. It's moonshine we are interested in. Figuring out the fermination process, the complex weaving of pipes. Stealing the shit required out of the school lab....
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If they ever come up with a way to turn fine British beer into Budwiser I'll let you know.
It's quite simple: drink the British, and piss into a Bud bottle.
Unfortunately these inventions are always bought up by the powerful french wine cartel and shelved. Or worse sometimes these inventors meet their untimely demise. So sad.
Most people don't like knowing about the insect content of their wine.
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Bah, wine. Keep your fine wine, give me a good bourbon or a scotch any way. You keep your wine, I'll keep my scotch and I can be drunk and passout on the floor in half the time you can.
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With a DeBeers diamond, an African child may well have died a result of its production. That's the human touch, and that's why people should be more impressed by a genuine natural diamond.
English is easier said than done.
This Wine Is Not Emulated.
I think the last glass of wine out of the bottle is always much better than the first one if you drink it all at once
You know, I enjoy beligian beers a whole lot (amount, not frequencey) and I often find the same experience where the last one tastes very very good. Oftentimes even a type that I wouldn't like on the first beer. If only I could find some corelation between drinking beer or wine and enjoying things. Hmmm... maybe these drinks have SOMETHING in common that I'm just not grasping.
I'll never make that mistake again, reading the experts' opinions. - Feynman
I find it interesting that the parent is currently modded +3 Insightful
The only response I have to that is... I'm not drinking any fucking merlot!
I've seen several documentaries and TV shows on various cooking shows which also supports the notion that smelling the cork is for those what to look like they know what they are doing...but really don't. The logic goes, since smell will provide some fashion of taste, smelling the cork will tell you if the wine is good...and information about its body. Yet, the whole point of letting a wine breath is 100% contrary to this notion. Simple fact is, the cork is going to absorb the aspects of the wine which most want to hide or get rid of by "breathing." Furthermore, wine is complex enough that its oder actually says little about its taste. Many cheeses follow suit too; smell good, taste bad, smells bad, tastes good.
Smelling the cork is for those that ignorantly present themselves as smart while proving they are not or they know they are frauds and are trying to look like they have a large penis. The long of the short, smelling the bottle makes more sense than does smell the cork and in the final analysis, only tasting it is going to tell you the critical details; which ultimately is a personal experience.
Imagine how much one can save if the wine is made with dehidrated water to reduce shipping costs and then zap treated into quality wine...
Oh well, what the hell...
Thats because you're drunk then. I always find the 10th beer is pretty good too.
A good wine is one you like.
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This is actually not true. Just think about the times you've had to poke that last beer down with a stick.
On a more serious note, my uncle (who, like one of my mum's boyfriends (see earlier post) is a bit of a wine wanker) got it right on one Christmas binge I recall (dimly). I was under the illusion that if we drank the _really_ _exceptionally_ _good_ red he brought first, then got stuck into the comparatively second-rate stuff I had later, it'd be OK. He suggested that we'd be better off graduating to the good stuff. He was right, I was wrong. (Disclaimer - we were both staggering-drunk at the point we agreed he was right and I was wrong (there'd been a fair bit of beer earlier in the day). I hated that. Fucker's always right. He's a lawyer.)
What a long, strange trip it's been.