Stabilizing Wine for Back Sweetening – WMA016

Stabilizing Wine for Back Sweetening

Back sweetening can be a tricky process. If the yeast is not either removed or incapacitated in some way they will happily ferment any sugars you add to your wine to back sweeten it. So how do you stabilize a wine so that you can sweeten a wine without risking fermentation, or worse, exploding bottles?

Sweet Wine
“Wine legs” indicating residual sugar left in this finished wine.

That is the main topics for this episode of the Winemaker’s Academy Podcast. During the show I explore the three main ways of stabilizing a wine so you can add sugars and end up with a sweet wine instead of a fermenting wine.

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