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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 >, (axlq)
wrote:

> 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


In California, you are more likely to add water to cut sugar.

D.M.