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  • Julia Harding MW
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  • Julia Harding MW
30 Jul 2007

How to make wines a little bit weaker

Although the practice of reducing alcohol in wine (as opposed to travailing in the vineyard to give birth to wines with lower alcohol) is far from uncommon today, especially in wine-producing regions where grapes are over-enthusiastic in their production of sugar or where grapes are picked so late they might be more attractive in a fruit cake,…