An interactive food- and beverage preparation or wine-making system that contains a computerized food-processing device, e.g, a wine-making press that is equipped with appropriate executing mechanisms and sensors and with a central processing unit provided with a program that controls the process and in response to outputs of executing mechanisms and/or sensors request the user to check the quality of the product by using at least one human sense selected from the group consisting of a sense of taste, visual evaluation, sense of smell, and sense of touch of said food, beverage, or wine. The invention also relates to a method for preparing food and beverages, or making a wine by means of the aforementioned system.