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A TRJ£ATISE ON
access of the acetous fermentation, or that which
causes acidity.-..Another
safe method
is, to remove
the racked wine into a rather warmer situation than
usual, observing properly to exclude_ the action of
the air, which cannot be done with wine
in
wood,
if the place be very dry.-.A
third method
is, to re–
move the corks or bungs, and to substitute bladder,
tied or fastened over air-tight. Bottled wine treat–
ed in this way ripens very quickly
in
a temperate
situation.
"Roughening.-A
roughness or astringency is
readily communicated to wine by the cautious use
of kino, catechu, or rhatany.
"Rvpiness or viscidity.-This
arises from the
wine containing too little tannin or astringent mat–
ter to precipitate the gluten, albumen, or other azo–
tized substance, occasioning the malady. Such
wine cannot be clarified in the ordinary way, be–
cause it is incapable
of
causing the coagulation or
precipitation of the finings. The remedy is
to
supply the principle in which it is deficient.
M.
Fransmis of Nantes prescribes the bruised berries
of the mountain ash (1 lb. to the barrel) for this
purpose. A little catechu, kino, or the bruised
foot stalks of the grape, may also be conveniently
and advantageously used in the same way. Any
other substance that precipitates albumen may
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