AFTER B\u00c2TONNAGE, WHERE THE FINE LEES ARE KEPT IN CONSTANT SUSPENSION, WINE SEDIMENTATION BEGINS.<\/p>\n\n
Wine clarification in the cellar is a phase that takes place after the completion of alcoholic fermentation and b\u00e2tonnage (described in the previous article).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n FINING – We facilitate wine sedimentation by using fining agents. For wine clarification, we use bentonite. Bentonite is a type of clay, a hydrated aluminosilicate, and we distinguish between two types: sodium and calcium. Depending on the vintage, the enologist can choose which type is better to use. Bentonite dosages are determined by laboratory tests and depend on the turbidity and type of wine. <\/p>\n\n Bentonite must first be dissolved in 10-20 times its quantity of water (1:20 \/ bentonite : water), and depending on the type of bentonite, it is left to swell for about 24 hours, after which it is added to the wine. During the mixing phase of bentonite and wine, care must be taken to create a homogeneous mass (so that the wine and bentonite are well mixed) to achieve a good clarification effect. <\/p>\n\n Wine clarification removes a portion of unstable proteins, i.e., it performs protein stabilization. <\/p>\n\n After clarification, the wine undergoes a protein stability test to determine if bentonite is still needed. After 20-30 days, the bentonite accumulation settles at the bottom of the tanks, and the wine is racked. At this point, the wine is stable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AFTER B\u00c2TONNAGE, WHERE THE FINE LEES ARE KEPT IN CONSTANT SUSPENSION, WINE SEDIMENTATION BEGINS. Wine clarification in the cellar is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30726,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721\/revisions\/30726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damjanic.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}