Researchers in Geneva have been able to determine the exact origin of a wine based on its chemical signature. The University of Geneva announced on Tuesday that they have succeeded in doing what many experts had previously tried to do.

According to the university, this technology could help to prevent wine counterfeiting.

The researchers have succeeded in identifying red wine by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to existing data. As they showed in a study in the journal Communications Chemistry, 80 wines from seven wineries in Bordeaux, France, and with 12 different vintages (1999-2007) could be identified with an accuracy of 100%. …