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Why Reporting Units Should Be Standardized

April 2011
 
by Patricia Howe
 
The subject of standardized units must be one of the driest and most tiresome topics in the wine industry. Or so it would seem, until a winery experiences a dramatic and expensive unit-related misunderstanding such as a massive over addition of SO2, refermentation in bottles of “dry” wine or unanticipated spoilage in the barrel room. These situations are extraordinarily common, and repeatedly hearing these stories can produce unit-standardizing activists and advocates.
 

 
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