Anyone game to try the nano wine created by Koert van Mensvoort, Hendrik-Jan Grievink, and Ruben Daas for Amsterdam-based design studio next nature? The wine uses the principles of nano encapsulation to produce a wine whose taste can be modified by the activation of different flavour particles via microwave. Check out the video below. Is this the future?

In the drink, which is by default a kind of merlot, tastes may range from vanilla and truffle to oak and pepper. The particles are activated by different wattages and duration of exposure to the microwave – users can alter and tweak its taste. Inactivated nano-capsules are drunk with no adverse affects, while the opened capsules alter the taste, smell and even colour of the wine.

We are not sure when or if the product will hit stores but the nano wine is part of the studio’s ‘nano supermarket’, a storefront of speculative nanotech products capable of being mass produced within the next ten years. Designed as much for experimentation and provocation as for quotidian convenience or food design.

NANO Supermarket commercial from Next Nature

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