Source: I'm not an enologist but I've worked in several wineries producing wine at all different price levels. And they're not even necessarily the best wines. very, very few wines are unadulterated expressions of terroir. So most of the tweaks are harmless, but they just undermine marketing and words like terroir. Worried that your 16.5% potential ABV Napa Valley Cabernet grapes will get through the fermentation without leaving you with residual sugar? There's a yeast for that. Want your Chardonnnay to taste like Montrachet? There's a yeast for that. Need to make you Sauvignon Blanc taste more like grass? There's a yeast for that. The scariest tweak in my personal opinion is selected and aromatic yeasts, which can completely modify the aroma of a wine to suit a winemaker's needs. So far, for the last 25 years, it has been necessary." And it's not uncommon to both chaptalise and acidify. To quote Jeremy Seysses of Domaine Dujac: "We don't chaptalise when it isn't necessary. It's illegal to chaptalise in Burgundy, but everyone does it. In Burgundy around this time of year there are police roadblocks checking people's cars for sugar. Sugar is an important addition in wines from cooler climates. These things are not bad for you, they just mask the identity of the wine by ironing out the defects. Also nothing too scary about megapurple, it's just concentrated grape must, not unlike the liqueur d'expedition added to champagne as it is bottled, or the mosto cotto added to Marsala. And mostly, it's not with scary-sounding chemicals, it's with things that are pretty harmless like tartaric acid and glycerol, things which occur naturally in wine.Īcidification by adding tartaric acid is by far the most common tweak. But if you speak to most winemakers or to anyone doing an enology course, they will tell you that they learn all the techniques for tweaking a wine. Multireddit bundle of all alcohol-related communities Taste wine with other redditors and discuss your results:Ĭurrent thread: Gamay or Pinot not from France
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