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chuffer

Turbo Monkey
Sep 2, 2004
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901
McMinnville, OR
"Bentonite"? WTF??
Extremely high surface area per volume. Also high bond affinity for charged particles. It bonds with stuff you don’t want in your wine and either settles to the bottom of the tank or is filtered out. Much more dangerous to the poor bastards that use it in the cellar than to the end consumer.

Yeast lees do the same thing, but take longer and are less commercially viable…
 

I Are Baboon

The Full Dopey
Aug 6, 2001
32,423
9,469
MTB New England
"Bentonite"? WTF??
Extremely high surface area per volume. Also high bond affinity for charged particles. It bonds with stuff you don’t want in your wine and either settles to the bottom of the tank or is filtered out. Much more dangerous to the poor bastards that use it in the cellar than to the end consumer.

Yeast lees do the same thing, but take longer and are less commercially viable…
Seriously I can't believe -SS- actually needed this explained to him like some kind of fucking idiot.