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Carboxymethylcellulose

Tartrate and colloidal stabilisers

CMC, cellulose gum

A durable tartrate stabiliser for whites and sparkling.

Typical dose

Per the product sheet, at bottling into a filtered white.

When to add it

At bottling; whites and sparkling only.

In practice

Inhibits tartrate crystal growth for the life of the wine, unlike metatartaric acid, and cheaply. It reacts with the colloids and colour of red wine to form its own haze, though, so it is a white-and-sparkling tool; reds are stabilised another way. The wine must be protein-stable first.

Linked faults are the ones this addition either treats or, used wrongly, causes. The fault page says which, and whether it can be undone.