{"id":23,"date":"2006-10-13T16:04:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T20:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2006-10-13T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T20:41:09","slug":"clef-du-vin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Clef du Vin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come across the Clef du Vin in several catalogs.  The item purportedly is able to simulate the taste of an aged wine simply by dipping the product into the wine one second for each year.  To rephrase, say you buy a bottle of 2005 Bordeaux.  You want to know how it will taste in 8-10 years time.  Dip the Clef du Vin in your glass for 8-10 seconds and the chemical reaction with stimulate the wine to produce its essential aged flavor of itself in 8-10 years time.  The Clef du Vin does not age the wine itself, but helps simulate what the wine would taste like with aging.  Put yet another way (from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uk.chateauonline.com\/pages\/gate.asp?mainurl=\/pages\/edito.asp?idtag%3D10218\">Chateau Online<\/a>), &#8220;It will gradually alter the organoleptic qualities (taste, smell, flavours and bouquet) of the wine, in a controlled way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vinummaster.com\/Eng\/InfosClefEn.htm\">Vinum Master Description<\/a> &#8211; Most detailed description I&#8217;ve seen thus far of what it is and how it works<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/asia\/tga\/article\/0,13673,501040809-674817,00.html\">Grapevine<\/a> &#8211; Time Magazine article about the Clef du Vin<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Clef-Pocket-Wine-Tasting-Tool\/dp\/B0002VRRXU\/\">Amazon.com Listing<\/a> &#8211; Buy it here<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epinions.com\/content_232483884676\">Epinions.com<\/a> &#8211; Good review<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clef-du-vin.com\/english\/introen.html\">Clef-Du-Vin.com<\/a> &#8211; Official Web site<\/p>\n<p>Have any experience with it?  Please submit your comments and let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come across the Clef du Vin in several catalogs. The item purportedly is able to simulate the taste of an aged wine simply by dipping the product into the wine one second for each year. To rephrase, say you buy a bottle of 2005 Bordeaux. You want to know how it will taste in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nygrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}