{"id":1542,"date":"2017-10-12T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T11:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2017-10-12T12:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:29:45","slug":"the-winemakers-think-tank-vol-34-fining-agents-and-why-they-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/the-winemakers-think-tank-vol-34-fining-agents-and-why-they-help\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winemaker\u2019s Think Tank: Vol 34 – “Fining Agents and Why They Help”"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s the Winemaker’s Think Tank?<\/em><\/p>\n

Every Thursday we will post about a few frequently asked questions that our winemaker has answered. If you have a winemaking question you would like to have answered, please email us at support@juicegrape.com and we will try to get into next week’s post. Cheers! \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Pouring<\/a><\/p>\n

Fining Agents and Why They Help<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Fining agents can help your wine in a variety of ways, both improving on appearance and flavor. A fining agent is added to the wine to remove an undesirable compound, typically by having the opposite electron charge.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>There are a myriad of fining agents and each has its own specific ability to help remove an undesirable characteristic within wine.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Here are a list of some of the most popular fining agents:<\/span><\/p>\n

Bentonite:<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/strong>A negatively charged clay that attached to positively charged proteins<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>and will eliminate protein haze in white wines.<\/span><\/p>\n

PVPP:<\/span> <\/strong>A synthetic polymer that helps get rid of reductive compounds,<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>often caused by oxidation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gelatin:<\/a><\/span><\/strong> M<\/span>ade of animal bones, it has a negative charge that will attach to proteins and surplus tannins, creating rounder mouthfeel and less astringent wine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reduless:<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0A<\/span> form of inactivated yeast fortified with minerals to help removes sulfur defects such as hydrogen disulfide and other phenolic defects.<\/span><\/p>\n

SuperKleer:<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Tandem packets of Kieselsol and Chitosan that will work to eliminate haze in wine. <\/span><\/p>\n

Noblesse:<\/span><\/strong> An inactivated yeast derivative nutrient that aids in reducing bitter flavors in wines as well as the burning effect from high alcohol wines.<\/span><\/p>\n

We hope this information helps with your winemaking. If you have any follow up questions or winemaking questions in general, please email us at support@juicegrape.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s the Winemaker’s Think Tank? Every Thursday we will post about a few frequently asked questions that our winemaker has answered. If you have a winemaking question you would like to have answered, please email us at support@juicegrape.com and we will try to get into next week’s post. Cheers! \ud83d\ude42 Fining Agents and Why They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[489,493,492,482,483,487,490,491,486,488,484,485],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ZM5f-oS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}