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I'm not a wine drinker, but this certainly made me raise an eyebrow. A Japanese company (Innovative Design and Technology Inc) has invented a machine that uses electrolysis to rearrange the molecules in wine to give it a more aged taste. The "machine is a two-chambered device roughly the size of a stereo. Wine passes through one and tap water passes through the other; a membrane the company has patented separates the two. Platinum electrodes provide the juice, driving negative ions -- the cause of acidity -- from the wine into the water." (source) This process apparently breaks up the water molecules so that they mix more freely with the alcohol, a process that takes place naturally while aging in a barrel. Obviously there has been a lot of skepticism with the traditionalist, but the company did manage to talk a couple of wineries in California and Washington into trying it out. What I found most interesting about the whole thing is this video ad that explains (sort of) the machine/process.



(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)