Tuesday, 22 July, 2025
Chemistry World, Mason Wakley
The work provides new insight into how different chemical markers influence consumers’ perceptions of wine quality.
Assessing wine quality is an inherently challenging and subjective process, with no universal indicator of what constitutes a ‘good’ wine. While panels of trained sommeliers can provide expert opinions, they represent only a small proportion of all consumers.
Scientists in Denmark and Germany have now investigated the chemical factors that influence wine preferences by combining analytical chemistry data with ratings from the wine app Vivino – in which scores out of five are crowdsourced by the app’s millions of users.
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