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Do you find salt in a wine pleasing or a flaw ?


Don Giovanni

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Do you find salt in a wine pleasing or a flaw ?

Salts in wine...disclosure I have interest in North Fork Long Island Vineyards and sometimes the salt I get from my fruit is very enjoyable...It is this salt that comes from the sea and is very natural...if someone was to taste some salt would you call it a flaw...then if you knew it came from a maritime influence would you change your opinion and call it a part of terroir as it should be...now the other salts that you can taste can come from wines treated with calcium sulfate...these wines are plastered...why because the are from must treatments...last if a wine is over treated with sodium-ion-exchangers they will taste of salt...source page 77...Wines: Their Sensory Evaluation...Amerine and Roessler out of print UCD...1975...

So for me the bit of the sea salt reminds me of that sense of place...this I find when supple creates a great distinct wine...if not from the sea then to me it's a flaw...

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