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by h4pless 4485 days ago
I feel that using the term "wine" is misleading considering it is not made from fermented grapes. Not to mention that wine is one of those things that has a touchy-feely side and this system has none of the romance that many would argue helps define a good wine.

You can also take powders, process them and make yourself some nice cubic zirconia that looks a lot like diamond, but that doesn't change the fact that a diamond is a diamond and that shit you just made is not a diamond.
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GFK_of_xmaspast 4485 days ago
Not sure that's the best analogy. You can also take a bunch of starting material, process it, and make yourself an actual diamond.
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h4pless 4485 days ago
So swap out synthetic diamond for cubic zirconia for the analogy. Synthetic diamond and geological diamond aren't priced so differently because of their chemical composition. The way they're made is an integral part of what defines them and how they're valued.

There is a reason a flawless 1 carat natural diamond might cost you somewhere around $18,000 and a flawless 1 carat synthetic diamond will cost you maybe $100-200. And you can't put either a synthetic diamond or cubic zirconia on a ring and market it as a diamond ring.

The point is, that a big part of what defines wine for me is the process of making it. The process is why some wines cost $200 a bottle and some cost $5. And that process which partly defines the wine is completely missing from this system. (Not to mention that the other part: fermented grape juice, is also completely missing from this system) So labeling the resultant wine flavored fermented kool-aid from this machine as "wine", seems wrong to me.

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GFK_of_xmaspast 4484 days ago
" There is a reason a flawless 1 carat natural diamond might cost you somewhere around $18,000 and a flawless 1 carat synthetic diamond will cost you maybe $100-200. "

That reason's quite probably "the deBeers marketing machine". The only difference between a synthetic diamond and an actual diamond is one's grown in a cleanroom and the other's dug out of the ground by exploited miners (and sometimes actual slaves).

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