{"id":14043,"date":"2017-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.invinic.com\/how-to-save-money-making-your-own-wine-filter"},"modified":"2018-02-23T10:51:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T09:51:59","slug":"how-to-save-money-making-your-own-wine-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.invinic.com\/en\/how-to-save-money-making-your-own-wine-filter","title":{"rendered":"How to Save Money Making Your Own Wine Filter"},"content":{"rendered":"
There are quite a few wine gadgets on the market. Many of them are completely useless, and that\u2019s certainly true of a wine filter<\/strong>. There are only a few circumstances where you might need one. Even then, the wine will be perfectly drinkable without it, and so rather than shelling out, you might as well just make your own filter at home with a few basic bits of kit.<\/p>\n For most of these faults, do nothing. Filtration just removes texture from a wine, which all part of the enjoyment. Of course, if the wine does smell bad, simply throw it away.<\/p>\n Yet if you really don\u2019t want any crystals getting into your glass, or fine lees particles, there are several acceptable household solutions such as:<\/p>\n As mentioned, unfiltered wines taste great! Yet some are more likely to have the above particles than others, and so if you\u2019re looking for really characterful bottles, try the below:<\/p>\nWhen You Might Theoretically Need a Wine Filter<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\nEver left a bottle in the car during cold weather? When you came back to it, you might have noticed tiny crystals at the bottom, and panicked thinking they were glass<\/a> shards or some poisonous residue. They weren\u2019t. They were completely harmless tartrate crystals, which are often removed from wine before it gets bottled. Potassium bitartrate is a natural fruit acid produced by grapes, and without filtration, it will still be swirling around in the wine. Storing the wine<\/a> somewhere like a cold cellar will make it condense into crystals.<\/li>\n
\nThese are left in the bottle so that the wine will continue to develop flavours<\/a>. More colour and tannin will come from the skin, and yeasty, bready notes will come from the lees, which are the dead yeast cells from the fermentation process. Typically they will collect at the bottom. As long as you don\u2019t shake the bottle, you\u2019ll be able to pour glass after glass without disturbing the sediment.<\/li>\n
\nNormally, wine is cloudy. That\u2019s because there are strands of protein floating around in the mixture, but as part of the enjoyment of wine is looking at it, the protein gets removed with egg white. The result is a sparkling, clear wine. It\u2019s also less likely to spoil, but then, it won\u2019t have as much as character.<\/li>\n
\nThis is a pretty rare wine fault which has been largely eliminated through better winemaking technique. If the wine comes into contact with old iron cellar equipment, a grey powder can form in the liquid along with a bad egg smell. You could filter wine on detecting this problem. But you should definitely stop buying wine from that maker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWhat You Can Do About It<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Wines that Might Have Crystals or Lees<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\nThis is a red<\/strong> made from Syrah, Cabernet Franc and Merlot. Expect a full bodied<\/strong>, plummy<\/strong> wine with woody<\/strong> notes. It is totally unfiltered too. What\u2019s more, it is a \u2018green<\/strong>\u2019 wine made with organic<\/strong> processes, and Gu\u00eda Pe\u00f1\u00edn gave it 84 points<\/strong>, which shows that for all it\u2019s lack of filtration it\u2019s certainly not that shabby.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a>Buy now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
\nHere is another proudly \u2018green<\/strong>\u2019 wine. There isn\u2019t even a hint of filtration or clarification about it, and frankly, that\u2019s what allows the wine to express even more of its character<\/strong>. As a result, it has a pronounced aroma<\/strong> of luscious dark fruits<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a>Buy now<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf You\u2019re Still Worried About Wine<\/strong><\/h2>\n