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Lexicon

The largest wine encyclopedia in the world with 26,295 Terms.

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Débourbage

French term for degumming; see there.

settling

A term referring to the process of allowing freshly pressed grape must to settle naturally (also known as settling, static clarification, sedimentation or pre-clarification) by utilising gravity without any mechanical intervention. This should not be confused with the natural clarification of wine (see ‘Clarification’ for more on this). Racking is absolutely essential to ensure the fermentation proceeds as smoothly as possible and to produce a wine with a pure flavour and free from defects. This is because the must still contains many undesirable solids, or so-called ‘lees’, such as fragments of seeds and grape skins, pulp particles, soil, dust, residues of plant protection products, etc.

Negative effects

If no fining is carried out, this can have very negative consequences during...
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