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Article: The filter factor.(wine making)
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- Wines & Vines
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- June 1, 2004
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Wine filtration, and to a lesser extent fining, remain subjects of controversy among winemakers. There is the school that argues filtration is always necessary for stability in the bottle. The other side argues that a carefully made wine, red wine in particular, which has gone through barrel aging, should not need filtration, either early or before bottling.
In Jancis Robinson's The Oxford Companion to Wine, the late professor Dinsmoor Webb of UC Davis wrote: "Filtration of fine wine is a controversial issue. While it may be necessary for ordinary commercial wines, too heavy a filtration can indeed rob a fine wine of some of its complexity and capacity to age." ...