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Amorim’s revolutionary screening technology – NDtech – that took the wine world by storm when it was launched three years ago, is now available for sparkling wine stoppers.

NDtech Sparkling is the world’s most advanced quality control system for sparkling stoppers and results from two years of research and development.

Individually testing every stopper in a matter of seconds, NDtech Sparkling delivers non-detectable TCA performance* for every sparkling stopper supplied. This is a milestone in the sparkling wine industry and is expected to inspire significant demand from producers, especially in premium segments.

NDtech is already sold to thousands of wineries throughout the world and has won multiple awards including the Wine Business Monthly’s 2019 Innovative Product Award (see separate article).

While the scanning and assessment technologies are similar to those used for still wine stoppers, the engineering process has to cater to two important issues: only the natural cork discs, which come into contact with the wine, need to be analysed, rather than the entire agglomerated shank; and the machines have to take into consideration the three typical diameters used in the sparkling wine industry: 48x29,5mm, x30,5mm and x31mm.