I went to pop the cork on the last bottle of my first wine, a
concord/niagra Welchs and strawberry wine, and found quite a bit of
stuff floating.

This stuff didnt show up in any of the other bottles which went down
fine altough a little green in the beginning. It looks like a flaky,
dark substance of varying size. The best way I could describe it is it
looks like shredded nori(seaweed sheets) floating in water. Dont know
how many will know what that looks like, but I feed my Naso Tang nori
on a daily basis and when he tears into the nori and it starts to
disintegrate it looks just like this.

I'm quite certain I didnt rack this stuff into the bottle, the bottles
were all somewhat light and clear after bottling.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Matt

Is it flaky the way fish food is ?

If so, that is probably tartaric acid precipitate. Happens when the
wine cools and can't hold as much acid in solution (cold stabilization
is making this happen on purpose).

If you've heard of wine diamonds, that what it is...

If not, then I have no idea.

Sediment more like, decant

Stephen SG
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|I went to pop the cork on the last bottle of my first wine, a
| concord/niagra Welchs and strawberry wine, and found quite a bit of
| stuff floating.
|
| This stuff didnt show up in any of the other bottles which went down
| fine altough a little green in the beginning. It looks like a flaky,
| dark substance of varying size. The best way I could describe it is it
| looks like shredded nori(seaweed sheets) floating in water. Dont know
| how many will know what that looks like, but I feed my Naso Tang nori
| on a daily basis and when he tears into the nori and it starts to
| disintegrate it looks just like this.
|
| I'm quite certain I didnt rack this stuff into the bottle, the bottles
| were all somewhat light and clear after bottling.
|
| Any ideas? Thanks.
|
| Matt