any homemade wine buffs out there?

DrWu | 21:34 Thu 02nd Sep 2004 | Food & Drink

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Hi I've just started making some raspberry wine. I have 22lbs of rasps and had frozen them. I was just defrosting them in a 5 gall bin and chucked in 4 crushed campden tablets. I left this for a couple of hours forgetting to mix the powder in, and to my horror the campden powder has turned a fair proportion of the berries white. Any idea as to whether or not this has ruined the whole batch? Thanks

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Gef

Campden tablets contain sodium metabisulphite. In water they produce sulphur dioxide which acts as a bleach. You have not ruined the berries as far as winemaking is concerned but reduced the intensity of the colour of the finished wine.

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Thanks for that Gef I was actually wondering if rasps are prone to losing their colour too when they have been frozen and then thaw?

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