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High-tech wine labels track travel temps Here's a great story from Canoe Technology for all you wine lovers out there! A high-tech shipping label now being used by some in the industry aims to warn customers if there's a chance they're getting cooked cabernet. About the size of a sugar packet, the labels can be programmed for a range of temperatures and placed directly on the product or its packaging. A light flashes green if the product stays within specifications and yellow if it doesn't. Information on exactly what temperatures the product reached and when can be downloaded via a portable reader into a computer spreadsheet. If there is a problem, the data show where it occurred, helpful in determining who's responsible. "We've been waiting for something like this," said Jayme Silva of the Napa Valley winery Robert Biale Vineyards. Among those using the technology is WTN Services, a Napa-based shipper that has been offering the temperature monitor to customers of its retail brand Ambrosia, a wine catalog, and is now making it an option for other wineries shipping through WTN. "It's been a great success," said Chris Edwards, vice president and general manager of WTN, which like Ambrosia is a subsidiary of 1-800-FLOWERS.com Inc.For the full story, click here! Posted at 06:14AM Sep 15, 2008 by Kevin P McAuliffe in Astound | Comments[0] 
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