Buon Vino Mini Jet Wine Filter

I've never needed to filter a kit, but my whites, made from grapes often need filtering. The only problem that I've found with this filter is that the "sterile" sized filter...I think it's their #3 pad, really isn't sterile. Otherwise, it's dependable and priced right.

Lee

One can really open a "can of worms" concerning the virtues or value of filtering. Suffice it to say that I own one of these Buon Vino Mini Jet Wine Filters and when I use it, it does a great job. It's a good product for the money and the price is what I consider reasonable. If you ever enter a competition in the local fair or whatever, you might find that clarity is a little more important.

Cheers !

It's really a misnomer to call it a sterile pad. At approximately 0.5 micron _nominal_ it's a pretty tight polish pad, but to do sterile filtration you need a 0.45 micron _absolute_ membrane (or tighter). I've only seen those in cartridge form - usually 10" or 20". They're pretty expensive, but if you run the wine through a tight pad filter first that'll catch nearly everything and the cartridge will take care of what little is left. Used that way and stored properly between uses the membrane will last a _long_ time before it finally loads up.

BTW, a sterile filtered wine really sparkles in the light!

Tom S

Ain't it the truth! That also applies to commercial wines, but I expect the pros to do a proper job of clarification and stabilization prior to bottling.

Unfortunately, that's not always the case. I mercilessly return expensive bottles that are cloudy because they've been bottled unfined and unfiltered by some tie-dyed, boutique-wannabe hippie who thinks it's cool and groovy to peddle barrel samples of half-assed, unfinished wines, and charge big bucks for them to boot! >8^[

But don't get me started...

Tom S

Okay, so what DOES happen to an improperly stored membrane filter? Does stuff grow on the dirty side, thereby clogging it?

Dave