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Carbon-14 Dating Reveals 5% of Vintage Wines May Be Frauds

Posted by timothy on from the better-than-backdating-a-check dept.

Carbon dating isn't used only for such academic pursuits as trying to determine the age of the Shroud of Turin, or figure out how old some rocks are. An anonymous reader writes "Up to 5% of fine wines are not from the year the label indicates, according to Australian researchers who have carbon-dated some top dollar wines."

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  1. Re:Excellent work. by Cryacin · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Buy a bunch of expensive wine
    Carbon date a small sample.
    Have giant pissup
    Some days I'm proud to be an Australian.

    Fixed that for ya.

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