What is VinoGuard?

VinoGuard is a single-bottle track-and-trace solution designed by wine and technology professionals. It enables users to Track and Trace Bottle Provenance.

NFC technology-enabled VinoGuard tags provide end users with insights on wine location and storage conditions at tag application and bottle departure points; as well as a log of all attempts to access tag information during the logistics process.

VinoGuard offers end users additional transparency and traceability from when wines depart from its original location to its final destination. Arm your valuable wines and spirits with VinoGuard technology to deter unwanted third party tampering.

The VinoGuard System comprises of
1. VinoGuard Tag: Secure & Intelligent NFC tag to be applied on individual bottle of wine and spirit
2. VinoGuard Report: Smartphone application to retrieve the tracking summary for your bottle by scanning the tag with your phone
3. VinoGuard Engine and Bolt: Integrated portal to manage and oversee actions on each VinoGuard-activated bottle

How to use VinoGuard?

Simply place a NFC-enabled smart phone near the round VinoGuard logo of the NFC tag to retrieve the VinoGuard Report, which comes with the following information:
1. VinoGuard Tag Status
2. Tag Application Date
3. Bottle Departure Date
4. Temperature and Humidity readings at the time of departure
5. Tag Application Geolocation shown on Map

VinoGuard system may revert the following tag statuses
1. Tag Intact, Bottle Sealed
2. Tag Cut, Enjoy your Bottle
3. Tag Potentially Tampered

Why use VinoGuard?

VinoGuard is co-designed by an experienced team of wine trading operators and highly skilled IT team. VinoGuard is one of the most advanced, secure and interactive system to deter and uncover illegal attempts of wine swapping. Here are the benefits for wine professional and wine lovers.

Benefits: Wine Professionals

VinoGuard provides an elevated sense of authenticity and integrity for your products.

VinoGuard is capable to provide assurance either end-to-end, e.g. if applied by the winery, chateau, distillery, or by a reliable trusted intermediary i.e. reputable merchants or retailers.

VinoGuard offers the service of customizing the open message as well as the encrypted information you’d like to include on the VinoGuard tags.

Contact us for more information on professional level application.

Benefits: Wine Consumers

VinoGuard is an effective method to provide assurance that wine and spirits bottles used for gifts and from personal collection have been transferred in the best conditions.

The VinoGuard system provides essential insights about the locations high-value wine gifts or wine collections have been travelling to before they reach the final destination.

VinoGuard offers the service to activate VinoGuard tags for consumers either at the provided address or the centralized warehouse of VinoGuard. You may include personalized text or photographs in the open message and define when you would like to receive real-time alerts.

What is NFC?

Near-field communication (NFC) is a technology that enables secure communication between the VinoGuard NFC tag and Android smart phones or iPhones (version 7 or higher).

Once the smart phone NFC function is enabled or NFC application started, simply place a NFC-enabled smart phone near the round VinoGuard logo of the NFC tag to retrieve the VinoGuard Report.

What makes VinoGuard Secure?

High level of security is provided by a unique set of highly effective physical and digital security strategies and measures. The high degree of tamper and copy security is strongly interlinked with the especially secure VinoGuard Tag, the methods applied to protect the data and the communication of the critical information. Here are some more details:

VinoGuard Tag: Keep information secure and copy protected
One of the most advanced and secure NFC tag. The intelligent tag is able to recognize of a bottle or case has been opened. Each tag has multiple layers of uniquely encrypted information or password protected messages which cannot be re-created or copied. Once an intact VinoGuard tag is applied, all attempts to access or alter the stored data in the tag will be recorded and may trigger alerts.

VinoGuard Report: Direct and instant display of bottle specific information
End user can retrieve the tracking report and key information about the specific wine bottle by using a NFC enabled smart phone to scan the VinoGuard Tag.

VinoGuard Engine: End-to-end Cloud-hosted Authentication and Reporting Portal
Tag application, programming, verification incidents and expiry of tags will be recorded in great detail.

How it works: Trace and Track with VinoGuard

1. Application of VinoGuard Tag at a Secure and Known Location
VinoGuard Tags can be applied to individual bottles. VinoGuard Tags will be placed across the bottleneck or along the capsule edge for single bottle security.

2. Wine Consumers and Professionals use VinoGuard Report to Track and Trace
Once your wine arrives at the final destination, end user can obtain a tag integrity update (VinoGuard Report) simply by scanning the tag with a NFC-enabled mobile / smart device. With every scan the user can access directly a detailed log of the geo-location, date and time of all attempts to access or alter data stored on the tag chip. Simultaneously, all scan and access attempts are logged with VinoGuard Engine, the ultimate back-end portal that manage and oversee all actions of all VinoGuard-activated bottles.

3. Best Practices for Wine Lovers and Wine Professionals
VinoGuard Track-and-Trace System can be made most effective should users who consume the wine scan the NFC tag again after cutting the tag and consuming the wine. That will be read as the final scan of the VinoGuard Tag and the VinoGuard Engine will assume that that particular wine / spirit bottle has now been consumed.