Chemist Reviews Wine without Opening Bottle -- an 'MRI for Your Ca

[Don Giovanni]

Chemist Reviews Wine without Opening Bottle -- an 'MRI for Your Cab'

DAVIS, Calif. --If you are thinking about buying some good wine, you may want to consider giving the bottle an MRI first.

Leah Knight collects wine. She knows a bad cork lets in too much oxygen, turning wine to vinegar, but until now, the only way to know if a bottle was bad was to open it, and opening a bad bottle of wine is very disappointing.

Matthew Augustine, a chemist from the University of California, Davis, says he is not a wine connoisseur. Yet, he came up with an invention for wine lovers; a wine scanner that can tell if a bottle of wine is good without ever opening it. The bottle is put into a powerful magnet, then, it's bathed with radio waves -- an MRI for wine.

Fair use for education...

So simple, yet not used as much as it should be...

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[prasantrin]

At $25/bottle, do you really think it's worth it for most bottles of wine?

[David A. Goldfarb]

Probably not for most bottles of wine, but for any bottle north of $500, I could imagine it becoming a necessity. I could also see MRI certification raising auction prices for collectible wines.

[Don Giovanni]

Probably not for most bottles of wine, but for any bottle north of $500, I could imagine it becoming a necessity. I could also see MRI certification raising auction prices for collectible wines.

David,

Bingo ...yes the auction prices would go up for collectible wines...!!!

[Christ]

Me too also agree with what David and Don have said. The price would go up for some collectible wines.