Back at it.

A while back I wrote about Hiroshi Tanaka and his super-duper magic wine thingy. Apparently it's a bit of a slow news day so CNN has picked this p.o.s up one more time.

Speeding up time for wine

There really isn't anything in this article that hasn't been written about before. The gist of the contraption is that though electrolysis (that's right, the same method used in chroming the pipes on the sweet-ass chopper you just bought from O.C.C.), the most trite wine can be converted into a First Growth Bordeaux.

In the words of Lumbergh (i.e. Office Space): Right.

There were two pretty good quotes.

"I don't see how a machine could turn low quality wine into a magical and mature wine in seconds. I don't believe in it," said Emmanuel Delmas, Sommelier at the celebrated Fouquet's Restaurant on Paris's Champs Elysees.

And then the ringer:

"I know we'll face a lot of resistance from within the wine industry -- we already have," he said, recollecting a time in 2002 the firm took a prototype of the device to a wine producer in Italy. He declined to name the producer.

"We were told to leave the room, leave the country," he recalled. "And never come back."

Right on. Good luck, Tanaka. I think you're gonna need it.