"Rob M" > wrote in message
om...
> I just bottled on the Limited Edition Cellar Craft wines that give you
> 16L of juice/concentrate and a pack that has all the skins and seeds
> and stems in the kit. It is a red Malec/Merlot kit.
>
> I had some friends making the wine with me and we were tasting it
> throught the process. After tasting it when after finings we found it
> to be very rich and full bodied. After filtering and bottling, we
> found that it was no longer like that. It seems to have lost some of
> it's body and richness after filtering.
>
> Would it have been better to have not filtered?

If the wine is biologically stable and clear there isn't any good reason to
filter it.

I used to routinely filter all my wines, but over the years I've come to
realize that it's better not to if you can avoid it. The wine suffers from
the extra handling, if nothing else. Of course if you have residual sugar,
cloudy wine or incomplete ML it's risky to _not_ filter.

Tom S