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Mulling Spice For Wine
In Tea Bags!
An ideal compliment for your wine sales.
The tea bags are all natural, no sugar!
Can be used to make:
Glogg, Wassle or Gluvine.
8 bags in attractive box,
24 boxes per case.
OLDE TRADITION SPICE
800-977-1117
www.oldetraditionspice.com
96 W in es & V i ne s AU G U ST 20 13
Wine is vulnerable to increased amounts of oxygen being dissolved
into it when being pumped from tank to tank.
headspace will help replace the oxygen and diffuse into the wine,
causing a depression that also helps prevent the problem of wine
leakage due to expansion. In addition, a bottling line supplied with
a vacuum filler is also effective in reducing the amount of oxygen
in the headspace. A controlled dosage of liquid N2 into the wine
after filling is another good option to flush oxygen from the bottle
headspace for screwcap operations (Crochiere, 2007).
The corking machine also may vary as to whether it supplies a
vacuum prior to cork insertion. According to Crochiere (2007), if
set up properly, supplying a vacuum at corking can help reduce the
amount of oxygen absorption into the wine.
Whether using inert gas sparging, pulling a vacuum, liquid N2
dosing or a combination of these procedures, it is advisable to keep
the time and distance from the filler to the corking machine as
short as possible. In addition, if there is an interruption in the bottling line process, down time may cause the inert gas to escape, allowing oxygen to concentrate back into the headspace of the bottle.
Therefore, if a bottling line stoppage has occurred, it is advisable to
remove all bottles in question and dose them again or discard them
from the bottling line.
The last important item that influences oxygen absorption during
the bottling process and ultimately affects wine aging potential is
the closure. Today there are many wine closures available, each
with different properties. Two major functions affecting oxygen
pickup in bottled wine include closure recovery time from compression and the rate of oxygen permeation. Lopes et al. (2007) indi-
