Patent ID: 8022832

Claim:
A method for certifying provenance of an alcoholic beverage by tracking environmental conditions of a container for the alcoholic beverage during its progress through a distribution channel, the method comprising the steps of: (a) measuring periodically, by a radio-frequency identification tag associated with a container of an alcoholic beverage, a plurality of values of a plurality of environmental conditions of the container, wherein one or more of the plurality of environmental conditions are measured at distinct locations during the progression of the container through the distribution channel; (b) storing, by the radio-frequency identification tag, the plurality of measured values of the environmental conditions; (c) receiving, by a server, the plurality of measured values for analysis; (d) generating, based on an analysis of the received plurality of measured values a grading of provenance of the alcoholic beverage in the container, the grading selected from three or more provenance grades and traceably authenticating the storage history of the container during the progression of the container through the distribution channel; and (e) transmitting, by the server to a client device for display to a user via a user interface, the provenance grading generated based on the analysis of the received plurality of measured values.