Wine scientists harvest power of the Synchrotron

摘要

Wine industry researchers are seeing the light with technology being adapted to unlock the secrets of tannin and how its impact on wine can be better understood - and controlled. SOME OF VICTORIA'S best and brightest scientists are using some of Australia's best and biggest technology to help turn the art of tannins in wine into a science. The scientists are using the Australian Synchrotron to assist with their world-leading research into the impact of grape tannins on wine. Based at Clayton in Melbourne's outer south-east, the Australian Synchrotron is a machine about the size of a football field which accelerates electrons almost to the speed of light.