Why Unfiltered?
Some winemakers may choose to bottle a wine unfiltered for aging purposes or to avoid filtration processes. There is no evidence to support the claims that filtration processes reduce wine quality. However, filtration processes do change a wine in terms of how it will age and develop over time.
Nonetheless, the trend to bottle wines unfiltered continues today, and it is important that winemakers remember that bottling wines unfiltered does pose post-bottling risks to their product.
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