{"id":30017,"date":"2016-09-09T21:49:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T04:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/biotech-startup-says-it-has-nearly-perfected-making-wine-in-a-lab"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:42:22","slug":"biotech-startup-says-it-has-nearly-perfected-making-wine-in-a-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/biotech-startup-says-it-has-nearly-perfected-making-wine-in-a-lab","title":{"rendered":"Biotech startup says it has nearly perfected making wine in a lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biotech-startup-says-it-has-nearly-perfected-making-wine-in-a-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ava Winery\u2019s first public taste test didn\u2019t exactly go well. Two reporters on camera at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2088322-synthetic-wine-made-without-grapes-claims-to-mimic-fine-vintages\/\"> New Scientist<\/a> compared the biotech startup\u2019s artificial wine with a glass of the Moscato D\u2019Asti that it was based on. They complained that the fake wine had too little color, too little viscosity, and an unpleasant plastic smell.<\/p>\n<p>But that was May, and this is September, and Ava is already bragging about making huge improvements in its product, to the point where it is all but indistinguishable from fermented grape juice, and looking ahead to how it\u2019s going to change the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have done since then is leaps and bounds beyond what they were able to taste back in May,\u201d co-founder Alec Lee says. \u201cNow we\u2019re at the point where about 90% of people fail out blind taste test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.co.id\/ava-winery-says-its-nearly-perfected-wine-in-a-lab-2016-9\/?IR=T&utm_content=buffer0fab0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer#kXbK2ElhY7wedrl1.97\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.co.id\/ava-winery-says-its-nearly-...7wedrl1.97<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ava Winery\u2019s first public taste test didn\u2019t exactly go well. Two reporters on camera at New Scientist compared the biotech startup\u2019s artificial wine with a glass of the Moscato D\u2019Asti that it was based on. They complained that the fake wine had too little color, too little viscosity, and an unpleasant plastic smell. But that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60447,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017\/revisions\/60447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}