Cardano puts Georgian wine on-chain to fight counterfeit bottles

More than 30 Georgian wineries now use the Cardano blockchain to let buyers verify a bottle's origin with a QR code scan Counterfeit wine is a quietly enormous problem. Cardano is pitching a fix that fits in the palm of your hand. The Cardano Foundation’s on-chain verification system lets consumers confirm where a bottle of wine came from by scanning a QR code. As of mid-2026, more than 30 wineries in Georgia have adopted it, and over 100,000 bottles can now be traced on the blockchain. That matters because fake wine is not a niche nuisance. Counterfeiting costs European producers an estimated €2.8 billion a year, and the people paying for it are winemakers and buyers alike. Think of it like a passport for a bottle.

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