Properly Sanitizing Your Home Winemaking Equipment

One of the main determinants between good wine and terrible wine is the sanitization practices in the home winery. Bacteria and wild yeast would love nothing more than to get into your wine and spoil it. Taking the time to learn proper sanitization will save you heartache down the road when you have 30 bottles of undrinkable swill.
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90% of Wine Failures Come from Poor Sanitization

One of the most important tasks in the winemaking process is proper sanitization. Fruit juices are not only responsive to wine yeasts, they will pick up any wild yeast or bacteria if allowed. As with canning, making sure that all equipment used is sanitized greatly lessens the chance of contamination. There are some basic steps to properly sanitizing your winemaking equipment. Once you have gone through the process a few times, it will become second nature. 


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