Inquiring Winemaker

 

If Filtration 'Strips' Wine, What's Getting Stripped?

October 2008
 
by Tim Patterson
 
Sterile wine filtration
 
Most compounds affecting aroma, flavor, color and mouthfeel are small enough to to pass a sterile filtration membrane element (above) unchallenged.
 
Recently I received an e-mail from Hamlet, winemaker for Prince of Denmark Vineyards. Hamlet wrote to address the question of filtration:
 

 
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