Can wine tasting be used as a defence to a charge of excess alcohol?

✍ Scribed by S.D.A. Franklin; A. Stephens

• Book ID: 104393777
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 256 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1355-0306
• DOI: 10.1016/s1355-0306(00)71932-0

✦ Synopsis

Wine-tasting has been used as a defence in the UK to charges of driving with excess alcohol on the breath. There is little scientific data to support this explanation. The authors carried out an experimental wine-tasting using twelve volunteer subjects. Breath alcohol samples were taken at the start of the experiment and fifteen minutes after the end. All subjects after wine-tasting had breath alcohol levels below the instrumental limit of detection. The authors conclude that the wine-tasting defence is not credible.