In a few years time, sommeliers will be able to rely on bees as their personal assistants - and will use them to identify poor wines or wines contaminated with TCA.

In the long-range forecast study of a British wine trading company (reported on Wein-Plus) you can find a few exotic forecasts. According to the authors, honey bees might be used as wine detectors in the year 2058. Possibly, in 50 years time sommeliers will be taking along their four-winged assistants in order to identify wines contaminated with TCY, or poor wines generally. It is not recorded which methods the researchers in this study applied in arriving at their conclusions. (WF)