A new, quite short day dawns for wine, conditionally implies a January 21, 2006 report in Mainichi Daily News:
“We can now electrolyze young wine and ship bottles of fine wine out in no time at all,” declared [Hiroshi] Tanaka, president of Japanese startup Innovative Design and Technology Inc., which runs a small laboratory in Hamamatsu, west of Tokyo.
“Think of the savings we’ll make. Shorter production time, no need for storage, no need to invest in barrels,” he said.
Wine connoisseurs are skeptical of the whole idea of immediate aging, but Tanaka’s company is not the only laboratory chasing instant wine. He says his method is the most advanced and a key part of the machine that accomplishes the process has been patented.
(Thanks to investigator Mark Schreiber for bringing this to our attention.)