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"pp" > wrote in message
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> I'm surprised nobody has mentioned yet that adding sorbate to wines
> that went through an ML is a big no-no as it's a pretty sure way of
> ruining your wine past any recovery. ML bacteria in contact with
> sorbate will produce a geranium off-odor.


That's not quite right. Running ML on a wine _after_ it has been sorbated
produces the geranium smell.

Tom S
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