(OK, that was making fake “Red Label” Scotch)

We already know you can check your wine and find out if it’s bad

Now there’s How to make cheap wine taste like a fine vintage

The secret this time is an electric field. Pass an undrinkable, raw red wine between a set of high-voltage electrodes and it becomes pleasantly quaffable. “Using an electric field to accelerate ageing is a feasible way to shorten maturation times and improve the quality of young wine,” says Hervé Alexandre, professor of oenology at the University of Burgundy, close to some of France’s finest vineyards.

University of Burgundy. Figures. They don’t do this kind of work at Boone’s Farm State University, or Ripple Tech.