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Steve Slatcher
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RESULTS: cold weather test
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:49:08 -0500 (EST),
(Eric
Reichenbach) wrote:
>Possible reasoning for the difference in results. My first thought was
>the alcohol content.
> Perhaps other components such
>as tannin and acidity, which are more in a zin than the BN.
>Also, body
>"weight" of the wine perhaps made a difference.
Cold temperatures cause tartrates to be precipitated.
My guess is that the wines that did not throw a sediment have been
through one of the "cold stabilisation" processes..
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