Campden and/or pot. sorbate

Aug 07, 2004 2 Replies

Should I add both to my finished wine or only one? Would it be alright to add sugar to my finished wine to give it a sweeter taste? thanks


If you plan to add sugar back to the wine, you have to both sulfite _and_ sorbate it, unless you sterile filter. Then you need sulfite only.

To summarize: (1) Dry wine - bottle with sulfite (2) Sweet wine (unfiltered or loosely filtered) - bottle with sulfite _and_ sorbate. (3) Sweet wine (sterile filtered*) - bottle with sulfite.

  • 0.45µ _absolute_ membrane (usually preceded by pad filtration).

If you're new at this, only #s (1) and (2) apply.

Tom S

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