WINES
Definitive Authentication & Smart Inventory
The Future of Fine Wine Preservation
Some Bottles Inevitably Lose Value
For Collectors. For Investors. For Legacy.
You’ve acquired rare vintages. You’ve stored them in the perfect bonded warehouse or vault facility. But behind the polished glass and ideal temperature settings, one truth remains:
You never truly know what exactly is happening inside the bottle.
Even under controlled conditions, wine is alive and subtly shifting with time. A silent cork failure, a brief temperature spike, or unseen chemical changes can quietly compromise its value. By the time you discover the damage, it’s often too late. It can be one bottle from your collection, but one bottle of 2000 Château Lafite Rothschild is one too many.
We Fix That.
In essence, you can get rid of the possibility of a bottle spoiling thanks to spectroscopy. Using non-invasive techniques, you can scan sealed bottles and create a unique chemical fingerprint. Over time, each scan tracks how the wine evolves, verifies proper aging and alerts you to early signs of spoilage long before they’re visible or irreversible.
Smart Inventory
Our technology acts as an early warning system, detecting subtle chemical changes that could compromise aging or authenticity. You get real-time insights into each bottle’s condition and can maximize the value of your investment. Spectroscopy turns inventory from a static asset into a dynamic, reliable resource that delivers better investment outcomes.
Simply Put…
Our tools are your smart assistants for watching over your wine collection and investment. They connect to scanning devices and keep track of what’s happening inside every bottle without ever opening them. This is a proven scientific technology called Raman spectrometry. Think of it like shining a soft light through the glass and reading how the wine responds. It picks up tiny chemical clues about the wine’s condition. Our software translates this into something you can understand. Easily.
You can check sealed bottles without opening them:
Track how the wine changes over months or years.
Get alerts if something goes wrong (like contamination or spoilage).
See a full history of every bottle’s health.
Protect your investment with data, not guesswork.
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A study, published in the peer‑reviewed journal Beverages, showed that spectroscopy can be used to identify the varietal, geographic origin and vintage with an accuracy of up to 98%. Hategan et al. combined H‑NMR spectroscopy with machine learning (k‑Nearest Neighbors and Logistic Regression) in their study. They concluded that the method is highly reliable for authenticating wine, offering a non-destructive and rapid tool for authentication.
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The Label Must Match the Content
We know that your reputation and success rest on your clients’ trust that what is in the bottle is what you say it is. You may be buying directly from the producer or relying on appellation systems. But you can go a step further by showing your potential buyers what is in the bottle right now.
A Raman device reads your bottle like an open book.
The Raman machine shines a laser light through the wine bottle, causing the wine’s molecules to scatter the light in a unique pattern that acts like a chemical fingerprint. The result is used to determine the wine’s true identity.
This technology is still gaining ground in wine investment, and Unknown Labs can be your bridge to the future of fine wine authentication. We can analyze your wine’s unique chemical fingerprint without opening the bottle. By comparing the reading from an unknown bottle to a database of verified wines, we can confirm if the wine matches its label.
