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Default What's in Wine--you don't wanna know -- Vinovation's Smith Scoffs at Noxious wine-additives Spi suggestions

In article >,
Steve Slatcher > wrote:
>If you really want to know:
>http://www.awri.com.au/analytical_se...sp?additive=89


That tells you additives permitted by country only. California
has restrictions that other states don't have. For example
chaptalization - adding sugar - isn't legal in California
(regardless of its alleged rampancy), although it's permitted and
downright necessary in other states that can't grow grapes with
sufficient sugar content.

-A