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Sulphites in wine

lauratkd · 2007-06-21 19:54:32

I'm a big fan of JP Chenet but one of my friends has recently stopped drinking ti because it says "contains sulphites". Is this a big deal? Should I find myself a new white wine with no sulphites...?

21-06-2007 7:54pm

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lauratkd

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I'm a big fan of JP Chenet but one of my friends has recently stopped drinking ti because it says "contains sulphites".

Is this a big deal? Should I find myself a new white wine with no sulphites...?

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#2 21-06-2007 9:42pm

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They pretty much all contain sulphites. Though some more so than others.

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#3 21-06-2007 9:54pm

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Under EU law, since 2005 wine containing sulphites (which, as seastar says, is all of them) has had to be labelled as such.

Organic wines tend to contain less, however.

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#4 22-06-2007 10:22am

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Healthwise I would be more worried about the poisonous ethanol, methanol etc in the wine, rather than the trace amounts of sulphites.

Home brewers add sulphites (campden tablets) to brewing water at the start or end of brewing. At the start it is said to remove some bugs (and some say chlorine) and turns to gas that will make its way out with a good stir.

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#5 22-06-2007 10:35am

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