In classification mode, no knowledge of spectroscopy is required. The BevScan can sample as few as 12 known good bottles of wine, build a “profile” for that product and then predict whether other bottles are the same, all without opening the bottles. It can also identify vintage differences, authenticate vintage wines, check and confirm bottling quality, track maturation & cellaring, test closure integrity and “bin” unknown/unlabelled products – non-destructively. It is useful for tracking wine oxidisation and deterioration and can identify fake and fraudulent wines. It can be used onsite in wine merchants to validate bottle contents for regulatory compliance. If more specific details of wines are required, then predictions can be developed in the Unscrambler package from Camo Software and applied to the BevScan, allowing full investigation of such parameters as anthocyanins, pH, CO2, ethanol and others. The BevScan can also be used as a stand-alone research spectrometer and has a standard cuvette testing option. It is portable with a small physical footprint and can be powered using 12/24V DC or 110/240V AC.
