AGING WINE BY ELECTRICITY.
If the latest invention from Germany is all that is claimed for it, port wine equal in quality to the famous vintages of the ’sixties should soon be one of the cheapest beverages obtainable. It is yet another instance of the magic uses to which electricity can be put. I?y an electrical j appliance which a German inventor has just perfected, the newest wane, it is claimed, can be aged so skilfully that the palate of the connoisseur is unable to distinguish say, the vintage of ’95 from the choicest port of the last half century. The process, which hitherto age alono has wrought, is artificially accelerated, and a mature wine obtained in a few weeks from the date of gathering the grapes. Claret has in the past been the subject of similar experiments, but the latest process is said to eclipse any previous method of treatment.
Electricity as an aging agent is not altogether new. Doctors have for some time known that a current has this effect upon animal life. Fusel oil is the great'factor to be contended with in all new alcoholic liquors, and age hitherto has been the only means of reducing this highly dangerous, though necessary, property.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 42, 24 May 1907, Page 7
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205AGING WINE BY ELECTRICITY. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 42, 24 May 1907, Page 7
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