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Terroir -- A Real Phenomenon Proved by Scientists

Terroir -- A Real Phenomenon Proved by Scientists

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Fredric Koeppel
Dec 20, 2023
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According to a story in The New York Times yesterday, a team of scientists in France developed a program — that is, they “trained an algorithm” — to “seek common patterns in the chemical fingerprints” of a group of wines. The researchers gathered 80 wines of diverse vintages from seven chateaux in Bordeaux for testing. Their database “held the chemical signatures of each wine gleaned from gas chromatography.”

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