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A Guide to Wine Faults – Sediment
April 28, 2012Sediment That gritty-stuff resting at the bottom of some wine bottles shouldn’t really be viewed as a true wine fault. Let’s go back to science class for a minute: Sediment comes about when naturally occurring tannins in a wine polymerize … Continue reading
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April 19, 2012Herbaceousness Green aromas (such as bell pepper, asparagus or generally vegetal aromas) in a wine can sometimes be mistaken for bad winemaking or harvesting the grapes too early. But most of the time it’s just a character in that particular … Continue reading
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April 6, 2012Brettanomyces [Breht-tan-uh-my-sees] Brettanomyces (or “Brett” if you want to sound like you know what you’re talking about) is a yeast that is found on grape skins, in barrels and in the winery itself. Brett can be found mainly in red … Continue reading
Posted in Facts | Tagged A Guide to Wine Faults, Brett, Brettanomyces | Leave a comment //A Guide to Wine Faults – Oxidation.
March 28, 2012Oxidation Aeration opens a wine, but too much will result in oxidation and therefore spoilage. Similarly, if the wine has a cork that leeks in too much air, or if a wine goes through multiple temperature changes in the bottle … Continue reading
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March 20, 2012Cloudiness / Haziness All wine starts off cloudy, that’s a fact. During winemaking and after the grapes are pressed, the juice is fermented, and the wine is run off the skins, stems, pips et al., therefore there’s plenty of smaller … Continue reading
Posted in Facts | Tagged A Guide to Wine Faults, Cloudy wine, Filtering wine, Fining wine, Hazy wine, Unfiltered, Unfiltered wine | Leave a comment //A Guide to Wine Faults – Tartrate Crystals
March 11, 2012Tartrate Crystals [Tar-trate] I’ve worked in restaurants my whole life and have encountered tartrates quite a bit. Before a wine is bottled to be sold, wineries usually employ a procedure called cold stabilization (which brings the wine down to … Continue reading
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