Inquiring Winemaker

 

Carbon Dioxide in Wine: It's a Gas!

May 2011
 
by Tim Patterson
 
Carbon dioxide is no stranger to winemakers: It floods the cellar during fermentation, serves as a blanketing layer in tanks to keep oxygen at bay and makes sparkling wines sparkle. But in still wines, at the sub-bubble level, it doesn’t get much respect.
 

 
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