Originally Posted By: CV
Electronic Tongue

These devices are already in use in airports, though for the detection of explosive or toxic compounds. I'm not surprised someone developed a unit for measuring specific compounds in wine.
Sugar, pH, alcohol concentration, all those are easy.
Trying to detect the more complex substances is the tough part. I imagine they have built the detector with a very limited set of character compounds in mind.

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