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Term for the independent settling (also known as settling, static clarification, sedimentation or pre-clarification) of freshly pressed grape must by utilising gravity without any mechanical influence. This should not be confused with the self-clarification of the wine (see under fining). Degumming is essential to achieve the smoothest possible fermentation and to obtain a pure, flawless wine. The must still contains many undesirable solids or so-called lees, such as parts of seeds and berry skins, fruit pulp particles, soil, dust, residues of pesticides, etc. If degumming is not carried out, this can have a very negative effect on the winemaking process and the subsequent wine. These include, for example, excessive fermentation with a loss of aroma and increased formation of the dreaded wine defect, sulphur bloom, an impure wine flavour with excessive tannin content and high colouring, as well as rapid ageing of the wine in the bottle with residues of pesticides.

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