Right this moment, we discover a gaggle of compounds that’s some extent of rivalry within the wine trade: mineral salts. Throughout wine manufacturing, when a mineral acid interacts with a base, mineral salts kind. Similar to all the pieces else we’ve mentioned on this collection, these compounds in the end have an effect on a drinker’s notion of a wine. And probably the most vital teams of mineral salts in wine is sulfites.
The world of pure wine has grow to be synonymous with wines produced with none sulfites. As such, many view sulfites as a unclean phrase in wine, probably alluding to one thing unnatural or synthetic. However the fact is that folks have been utilizing sulfites in wine manufacturing since antiquity as a pure preservative. They are often massively useful, but when a producer provides too many sulfites to a wine, that’s when issues can begin to get a bit dicey.
On this episode of “Wine 101,” Keith dishes up a crash course on all issues mineral salts and debunks some notions round sulfites earlier than discussing a number of different mineral salts generally present in wine. Tune in for extra.
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“Wine 101” was produced, recorded, and edited by yours actually, Keith Beavers, on the VinePair headquarters in New York Metropolis. I wish to give a giant outdated shout-out to co-founders Adam Teeter and Josh Malin for creating VinePair. Huge shout-out to Danielle Grinberg, the artwork director of VinePair, for creating essentially the most superior brand for this podcast. Additionally, Darby Cicci for the theme music. And I wish to thank the complete VinePair employees for serving to me be taught one thing new daily. See you subsequent week.
