On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:35:05 GMT, Bill > said:

]
] I received a shipment of wine today and there was a last minute note
] in the box about "Wine Diamonds" which are tartrate crystals. I gather
] the wine in my box contains Wine Diamonds. The note goes on to say that
] in Europe these sediment crystals are appreciated as a sign that the
] wine is natural. Indeed I have had three different merchants in
] Germany say the wine is highly prized if it has the crystals. It was
] always in the winter when they were trying to sell me these wines and
] my feeling was that the wine had gotten very cold for the first time
] and caused the crystals to precipitate out. I think that cold
] processing of white wines here in the US gets rid of them totally.
] OK this is a subject for some European comment.
]
Bill,

I've never heard of tartrate crystals as being desireable here in France,
just a by product of getting too cold. Neither good nor bad, as it were.

But marketeers will do what they do. Young vines are now a positive,
so it seems...

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