One declares victory when the cost of the wine per bottle is less than 30%
of the cost of testing. Paper chromatography has been shown to be the least
expensive way of testing, but the most expensive in terms of lighting needs.
Replace the bulb by which you read the strip with a 30 watt appliance light;
the fuzzy stuff will go away. Reynad Gallo knew this technique.

--
Bob Helgoe

"Michael Brill" > wrote in message
om...
> So I'm staring at the results from a MLF test and I'm wondering if
> there's a faint indicator of malic acid or it's just the lights.
> Paper chromatography seems very qualitative - I'm 90% sure that malos
> are complete as I don't see any dots for malic acid, but it's all very
> blue/yellow/green and fuzzy. Even the testing documentation stated
> that when there is no longer any dot there still may be some malic
> acid left. When does one declare victory?