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Potassium polyaspartate

Tartrate and colloidal stabilisers

KPA, the potassium salt of polyaspartic acid

A newer tartrate stabiliser that also works in red wine.

Typical dose

Per the product sheet, at bottling.

When to add it

At bottling, reds and whites alike.

In practice

Blocks tartrate crystal growth like CMC but without forming a haze in red wine, so it covers the case CMC cannot. It is recent and less familiar than the older options, and, like them, it stabilises tartrate only and not protein.

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