Jay Gatsby categorizes wines into one of three clusters. The centroids of these clusters (in standardized units), describing the average characteristics of a wine in each cluster, are listed in the following table.

Jay has recently discovered a new wine from the Piedmont region of Italy with the following characteristics. In which cluster of wines should Jay place this new wine?
Justify your choice with appropriate calculations.

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Characteristic Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Cluster 3 Alcohol 0.819 0.164 -0.937 Malic Acid -0.329 0.869 -0.368 Ash 0.248 0.186 -0.393 Alkalinity -0.677 0.523 0.249 Magnesium 0.643 -0.075 -0.573 Phenols 0.825 0.977 -0.034 Flavonoids 0.896 -1.212 0.083