Computers join quest for perfect wine

calidan · Jan 2, 2006, 03:22 AM

For as long as humanity has enjoyed drinking wine, it has been thinking about ways to make it taste better, usually with trial-and-error techniques from the selection of grape varieties through consideration of the terroir to the moment when the fruit is picked.

But now a scientist from Pittsburgh is using computer modelling to try to improve one of the most fundamental aspects of the winemaking process - fermentation. "We are asking what kind of performance we can get out of this," Lorenz Biegler of Carnegie Mellon University said. "We would like to come up with a reasonably good model of how this yeast cell behaves, then control this fermentation process so we can make better-quality wines."

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Iria · Jan 2, 2006, 06:49 AM

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calidan Frozen in Carbonite Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 1,409 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Computers join quest for perfect wine For as long as humanity has enjoyed drinking wine, it has been thinking about ways to make it taste better, usually with trial-and-error techniques from the selection of grape varieties through consideration of the terroir to the moment when the fruit is picked. But now a scientist from Pittsburgh is using computer modelling to try to improve one of the most fundamental aspects of the winemaking process - fermentation. "We are asking what kind of performance we can get out of this," Lorenz Biegler of Carnegie Mellon University said. "We would like to come up with a reasonably good model of how this yeast cell behaves, then control this fermentation process so we can make better-quality wines." ____________ Read More / Source: The Independent Online Edition __________________ Steam Community :: ID :: calidan "Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie.... Study computers instead." - Jackie Chan

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