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

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),


Though adding sugar isn't legal in CA, adding concentrated grape
juice is. Afterall, what's wine but fermented grape juice? Look
for the blue plastic barrels outside winery production facilities...

Dana