Imagine you were a synthetic chemist, smitten with wine. You tried a great Burgundy, and you simply couldn’t get this wine out of your mind.<\/p>\n
Sadly, your salary as a researcher meant you just couldn’t afford to buy this wine. So you got together perfumiers, analytic chemists, food scientists and a whole raft of other experts to collaborate in a great venture: to recreate that great Burgundy synthetically.<\/p>\n
After 10 years of research, you hit the jackpot. Despite the myriad flavour and aroma compounds present in the wine, you have recreated it with a little help from the Sigma catalogue.<\/p>\n
You present the wine to two of the world’s top critics, and blind, they cannot tell the real from the synthetic Burgundy.<\/p>\n
One critic celebrates: here we have a wine for the people. Something thrilling for $10 a bottle. After all, wine is just what in the glass, and if all we are experiencing with a great Burgundy is a delicious, compelling flavour, then this synthetic wine will do the job nicely.<\/p>\n
The other critic, however, is deeply troubled. This is a bad day for wine. For wine is very much more than simply a liquid with particular flavour properties. It matters that the wine is ‘real’.<\/p>\n
Which critic do you identify with most closely?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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