You may remember my article last March about What happens to your wine en route. In it I outlined the efforts of a new, US-based company eProvenance to monitor the temperature of wine in transit and to develop a security system designed to minimise wine fraud. The company has now decided to leave anti-counterfeit work to the likes of Prooftag (now adopted by Laurent Ponsot, whose daughter works for them) and is focusing on encouraging those who ship wine to establish what they call Fine Wine Cold Chains to protect better-quality wines during storage and transport.
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