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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Old Age for New Wine -- Mar. 3, 1923

TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Old Age for New Wine -- Mar. 3, 1923: "Mar. 3, 1923

A French professor, Charles Henri, has discovered a method of 'aging'
wine in a few minutes. In a demonstration before the Academy of
Sciences, he took a bottle of new wine, and by placing it for a few
minutes in an electrostatic field of from 60,000 to 100,000 volts,
changed it in a short time so that in all respects %u2014strength, color,
bouquet%u2014it could not be detected from old wine. Steps have been taken
to commercialize the new invention."