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	<title>Comments on: Tartrates &#8211; those glass-looking things at the bottom of my Chardonnay</title>
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		<title>By: Randy</title>
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		<description>Patrick!

The way to make lemonade out of the situation is to educate your guests. The fact that tartrate crystals formed in the bottle is a &lt;em&gt;good thing&lt;/em&gt; in that it means the wine wasn&#039;t harshly treated (esp. &quot;cold stabilized&quot; which involves basically holding the wine at a really low temperature to try and precipitate the crystals, then filter them out). &quot;Cold stabilizing&quot; as such is just being mean to your wine.

Much better that you find the crystals, tell your guests, &quot;hey look! Tartrate crystals, this means the winemaker cared about making the best possible wine!&quot; (or paraphrase, as I claim copyright to the phrase above ;) Then filter them yourself, either by decanting or by sticking a very fine strainer over the glass/glasses/decanter.</description>
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<p>The way to make lemonade out of the situation is to educate your guests. The fact that tartrate crystals formed in the bottle is a <em>good thing</em> in that it means the wine wasn&#8217;t harshly treated (esp. &#8220;cold stabilized&#8221; which involves basically holding the wine at a really low temperature to try and precipitate the crystals, then filter them out). &#8220;Cold stabilizing&#8221; as such is just being mean to your wine.</p>
<p>Much better that you find the crystals, tell your guests, &#8220;hey look! Tartrate crystals, this means the winemaker cared about making the best possible wine!&#8221; (or paraphrase, as I claim copyright to the phrase above <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  Then filter them yourself, either by decanting or by sticking a very fine strainer over the glass/glasses/decanter.</p>
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