COATES WINES

Provide structure to ordinary quality fruit. High yielding and/or poor quality fruit can be improved by tannin additions. Coates Wines is not making wines from those poor quality grapes... The list of winemaking fining agents and enzymes become longer every year. Those wineries that use these agents do so for sound commercial reasons. At Coates Wines the preferred approach is getting it right first time, or going the 'long way around' to avoid using fining agents and enzymes. Quick to make and fast to market. The science and application of fining agents and enzymes is complex, but a simple explanation of their use is -... Filtering red wine acts primarily to achieve an aesthetic goal. As wine drinkers, we like our wine to appear bright and haze free. That clarity does come at a cost; it is another process that removes aroma and flavour from the wine. There is also a risk of filter material taint in the wine, and potential for water dilution and wine losses through the filtration..

Primary location: Mclaren Vale Australia