Potable water required???

[doctorcosmonaut]

Do professional wineries have to clean their grapes/fruit with potable water, or can they use irrigation/untreated water for cleaning before pressing and fermentation?

 

[Runningwolf]

Grapes go from vines to bins to crusher.

 

[doctorcosmonaut]

So wine producers don't have to be concerned about bird droppings or any of that because of the fermentation?

I just wanted to know what are approved practices.

Thanks for the info

 

[Runningwolf]

The closest thing you're going to see to what you're talking about are sorting tables to pick out bad grapes, vine parts and critters.

 

[iVivid]

Mmmm fermented grasshoppers!

 

[GreginND]

It's all nutrients for the yeast.

 

[DoctorCAD]

Mmmm fermented grasshoppers!

Thats why I try to throw some shoe dirt, cat fur, oily rags and old dishwater in my wines! Gives it that "natural" taste.