A friend uses an iodophor sanitizer, and I worked with him last week
while he used it to clean racking equipment and carboys. Was surprised
at how well it rinses (unlike bleach). Did thorough flush of wine
transfer tubing, and triple-rinsed everything else. The only thing he
doesn't sanitize with it is his oak barrels; used stronger potassium
metabilsulphite for them.

I was intitially concerned with getting 'corked' wine from TCA
(trichloroanisole) when using iodine sanitizer, but he's been doing this
5 years and no corked wine. His wines are VERY high quality. So, like
all things, YMMV, but good rinsing seems to control the risk adequately.

Gene

Tom Veldhouse wrote:
> Joe Sallustio > wrote:
>
>>I can't speak to the kit quality but would mention Idophor may not be
>>approriate for winemaking; that is all I would add to Droopy's comment
>>on sanitation which echos my thoughts exactly.
>>
>
>
> Idophor won't hurt winemaking, as long as no significant iodine gets into the wine. My fermenter was allowed to drip dry before use. I will add sulphites as is appropriate, but that time has not yet come.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tom Veldhouse