New bottle cap thwarts wine counterfeiters

Monday, August 4, 2008 - 14:28 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the Roman historian Pliny the Elder wrote " in vino veritas " - in wine, there is truth - he must not have been drinking from a counterfeit bottle. Researchers Roger Johnston and Jon Warner of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have created a device to ensure that modern wine connoisseurs can have faith that they are drinking what they pay for.

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