I over sulphited a gallon of black currant wine to cure an infection. It
seems to have worked, the wine tastes great, except for a soapy after
taste. I decided to leave it for a year to blend with next years batch.
Its kept in the coldest part of my flat (averaging about 14C) with a few
other wines and I check them every few days. With in a space of 2 days,
the wine suddenly dropped a white, cloudy sediment, about 1/4cm thick. I
haven't tasted it yet, I don't want to move the bottle until the
sediment has compacted a bit. Any suggestions as to what this might be?
Is it sulphates dropping out of the wine?

alien wrote:
> I over sulphited a gallon of black currant wine to cure an infection. It
> seems to have worked, the wine tastes great, except for a soapy after
> taste. I decided to leave it for a year to blend with next years batch.
> Its kept in the coldest part of my flat (averaging about 14C) with a few
> other wines and I check them every few days. With in a space of 2 days,
> the wine suddenly dropped a white, cloudy sediment, about 1/4cm thick. I
> haven't tasted it yet, I don't want to move the bottle until the
> sediment has compacted a bit. Any suggestions as to what this might be?
> Is it sulphates dropping out of the wine?

I think it is the sulphates dropping out of the wine, the soapy
aftertaste has almost dissapeared. It's quite a pleasant wine now.

Surely you could not have added enough sulphite to get 1/4 in. of sediment.
I think it is probably something else. Maybe Tartaric Acid falling out or
maybe some zonked out yeast cells. Anyway, I am sure it is nothing to worry
about. You might want to get a sulphite test kit and check the level. If
it is excessively high you might aerate the wine a bit to get it down. Or
give it a lot of time and it will probably drop on it's own.

Ray

"alien" > wrote in message
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> alien wrote:
>> I over sulphited a gallon of black currant wine to cure an infection. It
>> seems to have worked, the wine tastes great, except for a soapy after
>> taste. I decided to leave it for a year to blend with next years batch.
>> Its kept in the coldest part of my flat (averaging about 14C) with a few
>> other wines and I check them every few days. With in a space of 2 days,
>> the wine suddenly dropped a white, cloudy sediment, about 1/4cm thick. I
>> haven't tasted it yet, I don't want to move the bottle until the sediment
>> has compacted a bit. Any suggestions as to what this might be? Is it
>> sulphates dropping out of the wine?
>
> I think it is the sulphates dropping out of the wine, the soapy aftertaste
> has almost dissapeared. It's quite a pleasant wine now.

Ray Calvert wrote:
> Surely you could not have added enough sulphite to get 1/4 in. of sediment.
> I think it is probably something else. Maybe Tartaric Acid falling out or
> maybe some zonked out yeast cells. Anyway, I am sure it is nothing to worry
> about. You might want to get a sulphite test kit and check the level. If
> it is excessively high you might aerate the wine a bit to get it down. Or
> give it a lot of time and it will probably drop on it's own.
>
> Ray
>
> "alien" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>alien wrote:
>>
>>>I over sulphited a gallon of black currant wine to cure an infection. It
>>>seems to have worked, the wine tastes great, except for a soapy after
>>>taste. I decided to leave it for a year to blend with next years batch.
>>>Its kept in the coldest part of my flat (averaging about 14C) with a few
>>>other wines and I check them every few days. With in a space of 2 days,
>>>the wine suddenly dropped a white, cloudy sediment, about 1/4cm thick. I
>>>haven't tasted it yet, I don't want to move the bottle until the sediment
>>>has compacted a bit. Any suggestions as to what this might be? Is it
>>>sulphates dropping out of the wine?
>>
>>I think it is the sulphates dropping out of the wine, the soapy aftertaste
>>has almost dissapeared. It's quite a pleasant wine now.
>
>
>
After a few days it compacted right down to around 2mm thick. I work in
metric, 1/4cm is less than 1/8th of an inch I was more suprised at
how quickly it happened. Two days before I had checked in and there was
n't any visible sediment, then suddenly this layer of white sediment.
The ambient temperature had dropped a fair bit over this time however.

Ray Calvert wrote:
> Surely you could not have added enough sulphite to get 1/4 in. of sediment.
> I think it is probably something else. Maybe Tartaric Acid falling out or
> maybe some zonked out yeast cells. Anyway, I am sure it is nothing to worry
> about. You might want to get a sulphite test kit and check the level. If
> it is excessively high you might aerate the wine a bit to get it down. Or
> give it a lot of time and it will probably drop on it's own.
>
> Ray
>
> "alien" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>alien wrote:
>>
>>>I over sulphited a gallon of black currant wine to cure an infection. It
>>>seems to have worked, the wine tastes great, except for a soapy after
>>>taste. I decided to leave it for a year to blend with next years batch.
>>>Its kept in the coldest part of my flat (averaging about 14C) with a few
>>>other wines and I check them every few days. With in a space of 2 days,
>>>the wine suddenly dropped a white, cloudy sediment, about 1/4cm thick. I
>>>haven't tasted it yet, I don't want to move the bottle until the sediment
>>>has compacted a bit. Any suggestions as to what this might be? Is it
>>>sulphates dropping out of the wine?
>>
>>I think it is the sulphates dropping out of the wine, the soapy aftertaste
>>has almost dissapeared. It's quite a pleasant wine now.
>
>
>
After a few days it compacted right down to around 2mm thick. I work in
metric, 1/4cm is less than 1/8th of an inch I was more suprised at
how quickly it happened. Two days before I had checked in and there was
n't any visible sediment, then suddenly this layer of white sediment.
The ambient temperature had dropped a fair bit over this time however.

Surely you could not have added enough sulphite to get 1/4 in. of sediment.
I think it is probably something else. Maybe Tartaric Acid falling out or
maybe some zonked out yeast cells. Anyway, I am sure it is nothing to worry
about. You might want to get a sulphite test kit and check the level. If
it is excessively high you might aerate the wine a bit to get it down. Or
give it a lot of time and it will probably drop on it's own.

Ray

"alien" > wrote in message
...
> alien wrote:
>> I over sulphited a gallon of black currant wine to cure an infection. It
>> seems to have worked, the wine tastes great, except for a soapy after
>> taste. I decided to leave it for a year to blend with next years batch.
>> Its kept in the coldest part of my flat (averaging about 14C) with a few
>> other wines and I check them every few days. With in a space of 2 days,
>> the wine suddenly dropped a white, cloudy sediment, about 1/4cm thick. I
>> haven't tasted it yet, I don't want to move the bottle until the sediment
>> has compacted a bit. Any suggestions as to what this might be? Is it
>> sulphates dropping out of the wine?
>
> I think it is the sulphates dropping out of the wine, the soapy aftertaste
> has almost dissapeared. It's quite a pleasant wine now.

alien wrote:
> I over sulphited a gallon of black currant wine to cure an infection. It
> seems to have worked, the wine tastes great, except for a soapy after
> taste. I decided to leave it for a year to blend with next years batch.
> Its kept in the coldest part of my flat (averaging about 14C) with a few
> other wines and I check them every few days. With in a space of 2 days,
> the wine suddenly dropped a white, cloudy sediment, about 1/4cm thick. I
> haven't tasted it yet, I don't want to move the bottle until the
> sediment has compacted a bit. Any suggestions as to what this might be?
> Is it sulphates dropping out of the wine?

I think it is the sulphates dropping out of the wine, the soapy
aftertaste has almost dissapeared. It's quite a pleasant wine now.