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'AI helps me to make wine for younger drinkers'
The winemakers using artificial intelligence to help them grow grapes and blend their wines.
The director of viticulture at large US wine firm Foley Family Farms, she is responsible for more than 5,200 acres (2,000 hectares) of vines, scattered across 1,000 miles of California and Oregon. While judging the water requirements of the vines would previously have been done by human judgement and calculation, Foley now uses sensors made by Tule Technologies, a California-based irrigation company. "No algorithm can truly understand the complex interplay between climate, soil, and grape varieties that gives wine its subtlety and character," says Jonathan Kleeman, executive head sommelier at UK restaurant business Tom Sellers Story Group.
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