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OT?: Winemaking
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, David (in Normandy) wrote:
Sodium metabisul ATE is a highly acid substance and is akin to solid sulphuric acid and is nasty if you eat it. It's the main constituent of some solid toilet cleaners. I can guess that the French shove the latter in their wine. Only if they run out of anti-freeze :-) Antifreeze was used in a highly publicised case more than twenty years ago by a combine just outside Rust on the Neusiedler See in Austria in order to sweeten the wine. The local small wine growers were outraged by this and put up posters saying that their wine was good and did NOT contain antifreeze. I still have one of these posters somewhere. The net result of this was that Austrian wine was not imported to the UK (and several other countries) for years afterwards which was a great pity as they have some great wines which are totally different to any others. Even a grape like Müller-Thurgau produces a very sweet wine in Austria and quite different to that produced by the same grape in, for instance, the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer area of Germany. Also they have their own grape varieties not found elsewhere such as Grüner Veldliner and Welschriesling (which, in spite of the name, is not a Riesling at all). David -- David Rance http://www.mesnil.demon.co.uk Fido Address: 2:252/110 writing from Le Mesnil Villement, Calvados, France |
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OT?: Winemaking
David Rance wrote: [...] Antifreeze was used in a highly publicised case more than twenty years ago by a combine just outside Rust on the Neusiedler See in Austria in order to sweeten the wine. The local small wine growers were outraged by this and put up posters saying that their wine was good and did NOT contain antifreeze. I still have one of these posters somewhere. [...] Ridiculous fuss over a perfectly reasonable little mistake! Why, only last winter I put glycerol in the car radiator. Worked as sweet as a nut. -- Mike. |
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OT?: Winemaking
On 9 Aug 2006 05:27:31 -0700, "Mike Lyle"
wrote: David Rance wrote: [...] Antifreeze was used in a highly publicised case more than twenty years ago by a combine just outside Rust on the Neusiedler See in Austria in order to sweeten the wine. The local small wine growers were outraged by this and put up posters saying that their wine was good and did NOT contain antifreeze. I still have one of these posters somewhere. [...] Ridiculous fuss over a perfectly reasonable little mistake! Why, only last winter I put glycerol in the car radiator. Worked as sweet as a nut. The most important nut in the car is the one holding the steering wheel |
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