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Default Wine Kits and Wine Quality?


gene wrote:
> 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
>



He rinsed it? that is kind of defeating the purpose isn't it?
Iodophor is a no rinse sanitizer.