A printed QR for the diner with the phone camera. A hidden cryptographic NFC chip under the same label for the cautious collector. Both linked to one Polygon-anchored vintage record. Anti-counterfeit and storytelling on the same bottle. Boutique wineries now have what used to be a six-figure enterprise build.
The Fake
A counterfeiter buys real empty bottles from auctions, refills with cheap juice, prints your label. A QR that just opens a generic page would never catch this. We pair the QR with a cryptographic NTAG424 NFC chip on the same bottle — the QR is the friendly door, the chip is the unforgeable lock.
The Cellar
Your vintage story — soil, weather, harvest, fermentation, oak — sits in a winemaker's notebook. The buyer at the restaurant never sees any of it. The bottle has no voice.
The Connection
Your customer drinks the wine, loves it, has no way to find more of it, no way to leave you a note, no way to know when the next vintage releases. The relationship ends at the cork.
Every bottle gets both a printed QR code and a hidden NTAG424 NFC chip — sharing the same blockchain-anchored identity. The QR is the universally-recognised door (after COVID, everyone scans QR codes without thinking). The NFC chip is the cryptographic lock that makes counterfeiting impossible. Customers don't have to know the difference. The right one fires automatically.
Printed on the back label or capsule. A diner at a restaurant table can scan with any phone camera — no app, no tap, no learning. Perfect for casual discovery: tasting notes, vintage story, video from the winemaker.
Hidden under the label as a thin film. A serious buyer or sommelier taps their phone to the bottle for a cryptographic verification — each scan produces a one-time signature anchored on Polygon. A perfect physical clone of the chip still fails on the next read.
Same identity. Same blockchain anchor. Two ways in. Use one. Use both. Either way, the proof is real.
QR is universal (everyone scans), NFC is unforgeable (no one can clone). Together — sharing the same Polygon-anchored identity — they cover the casual diner and the cautious collector with the same bottle.
Every bottle gets a printed QR code on the back label or capsule. A diner taps their phone camera — no app, no NFC reader needed. The friendly, post-COVID-familiar door that anyone can use.
Hidden under the same label, a thin-film NTAG424 DNA chip. Each scan produces an unforgeable signature. A perfect physical clone of the chip will still fail on the next read because the cryptographic counter desynchronises.
Embed the winemaker introducing the vintage, vineyard drone footage, harvest day video. The bottle in their hand becomes a window into your cellar.
Every event from vineyard to bottling anchored to Polygon. Buyers verify on polygonscan.com — no need to trust us as a middleman.
Soil reports, weather data, harvest notes, fermentation logs, oak treatment — all on the cryptographic chain. Sommeliers and serious collectors will pay for this.
Customers leave tasting notes that publish back to the bottle's provenance page. Word-of-mouth, verifiable, attached to a real bottle.
Soil reports, vine block, weather data, organic certifications — all signed at the very first block.
Harvest date, brix levels, hand-pick or machine, vineyard manager notes. The day the grape became the wine.
Fermentation logs, malolactic, racking, oak choice, blending decisions. The winemaker's diary on the chain.
QR printed on the back label. NTAG424 chip applied behind the same label. Bottle is now cryptographically bound to its cellar history — and discoverable by any phone.
A diner snaps the QR at the restaurant. A collector taps the NFC at home. Both routes open the same Polygon-anchored bottle page. They see the winemaker introduce the vintage, leave a tasting note, become a customer for life.
A QR or an NFC chip on its own is shallow. Holographic labels are physical-only with no story. Enterprise blockchain platforms are expensive B2B-only walled gardens. We combine all three layers — and we're affordable for a boutique winery.
| Capability | ScanToProve QR + NFC + blockchain | Standalone QR link only | Holographic labels no digital story | Enterprise blockchain B2B only, $$$ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universal smartphone scan (QR) | — | sometimes | ||
| Cryptographic NFC NTAG424 | — | — | rare | |
| Per-scan unforgeable signature | — | — | — | |
| Cellar-to-glass video | basic | — | — | |
| Blockchain anchored provenance | — | — | ||
| Hidden under existing label | — | — | ||
| Counterfeit scan alerts | — | — | enterprise-only | |
| Per-vintage record (soil, weather) | — | — | enterprise-only | |
| Customer tasting notes captured | basic | — | — | |
| Survives provider shutdown | yes — Polygon + BYOK | — | physical only |
A great vintage outlives its winemaker. Whatever proves its provenance has to outlive its software vendor too. Every event is anchored to the Polygon blockchain — public, decentralised, verifiable without us. Your media lives on Cloudflare's global edge or in your own S3 bucket (Bring Your Own Keys). Export to JSON + CSV any time. A bottle we register today is verifiable in 2080 even if ScanToProve no longer exists.
We use both, deliberately. The QR is printed on the label as the easy, universal way in — every smartphone reads it without an app. The NFC NTAG424 chip is hidden under the same label as the cryptographic backbone. Each NFC scan produces a one-time signature anchored on Polygon — a cloned chip fails on the very next read. A counterfeiter can fake a QR sticker but cannot reproduce the cryptographic chain behind it. Customers get the convenience of QR; the bottle gets the security of NFC; you get both.
They almost never have to choose. The QR is right there on the label — scan with any phone camera at a restaurant table. The NFC chip is under the label — for a serious buyer or sommelier who taps their phone. Both routes open the same Polygon-anchored bottle page; both record the scan as a verifiable event. The QR is the discovery surface. The NFC is the verification surface. Same wine, same proof.
A branded page (your winery, not ours) with the vineyard, varietal, vintage, harvest conditions, tasting notes from the winemaker, video from the cellar door, the cellar history, and a blockchain-verified provenance timeline. They can leave their own tasting note, save the bottle to their personal cellar, and share it on social media.
No. The NFC chip sits behind your existing label as a thin film — invisible from the outside. We can also use QR codes printed directly on the back label for budget bottles, or a hybrid (QR for budget tier, NFC for reserve). Your existing label design stays exactly as it is.
Every event (vineyard, harvest, fermentation, bottling, distribution) is hashed and anchored to the Polygon blockchain — public, decentralised, permanent. Your media (label scans, cellar video, vineyard photos) sits in Cloudflare R2 or your own S3 bucket via Bring Your Own Keys. A bottle we register today is verifiable in 2065 even if ScanToProve is no longer here. The blockchain anchor and the verification page survive any single point of failure.
Yes. The verification page is public, hosted on Cloudflare's global edge, and works from any phone's camera (QR) or NFC reader (tap-to-verify). No app download. Each scan generates a unique Polygon transaction ID the buyer can independently check on polygonscan.com.
NTAG424 chips are around $0.12–$0.20 each at volume. QR codes are essentially free (printed on label). Our platform fee is a per-bottle micro-charge that scales with your tier. For a boutique winery doing 50,000 bottles/year, total platform spend is under what one bottle of your reserve retails for, per case.
Free for your first 100 bottles. No credit card required.
ScanToProve Wine
Wine Provenance Specialist