The rewards and frustrations of home winemaking

Daily archive: 27 04 2009

Time to Nix the MLF

Iโ€™m pretty sure the MLB is not viable anyway, but I donโ€™t want to risk exploding wine bottles, either.ย  What we needed to do was treat our merlot with lysozyme.ย  Lysozyme is an enzyme that will lyse the bacterial walls, which definitely completely destroys any bacteria that might still be hanging around.ย  Chris Van Alyea […]