Technology advances continue to amaze us every
day. This time the innovation is
connected to the wine business, where two Portuguese entrepreneurs raise above
the competition and won the prestigious WBIS Business award for their project: The “Smart Wine Glass”. The ceremony
was held on the second day of the “Wine
Business Innovation” summit which main objective is to propel creativity
and entrepreneurship in the area.
The concept behind this intelligent glass promises to improve any wine tasting experience: it will remember a wine’s name even if you
don’t. As a wine professional
attending a wine event, you taste
several wines, interact with many of the producers and
sometimes you can have difficulty remembering every single name. “We
implemented a prototype of a “Smart Wine
Glass” that would help people easily collect information on tasted wines
and visited tables at any wine event” explained André Ribeirinho at Wine
Business Innovation.
But how will this
“Smart Wine Glass” actually work?
Every glass at a wine event
will have a small electronic chip applied to it and every table of the wine
event will have a sensor. The consumer swipes their wine glass on the sensor and it is recorded. Later on, the consumer
will receive an email with all the key information: which wines they tasted, the brands
they visited and where to buy them.
The Portuguese team believes that this concept
will improve the lives of wine
professionals: “We’re very happy with the reaction to our project. We’ve been
getting excellent feedback!” said André Ribeirinho.
See it to believe it.
The “Smart
Wine Glass” will be implemented for the first time at Rios Vinhos Portugal,
a wine eventheld by two media giants: the Brazilian newspaper O Globo
and the Portuguese newspaper Público,
over the 23rd, 24th and 25th of May in Rio de
Janeiro.
