Cellar Craft anyone do MLF for kit wines?

[monkfe]

contemplating doing MLF on my CC Zin. Is this a tweak that you more experienced guys do?

 

[cmason1957]

Never. Don't do it. Kits are balanced to not need (and probably won't even start) MLF. Bad idea.

 

[cpfan]

Apparently MLF on a kit wine results in a flabby wine (can't remember what that means). Definitely not recommended.

Steve

 

[monkfe]

thanks for the response ...

 

[SouthernChemist]

You should never perform MLF to a kit wine. The acids in the kit are balanced already (and possibly extra malic acid was added during manufacture) and should not need tweaking. It's not that it would not 'work' but more so that the results would probably not be an improvement if not potentially disastrous because the lactic acid produced is both less acidic and has a different flavor profile.

 

[mmadmikes1]

I want to see a flappy wine

 

[Broge5]

I second wanting to see a flappy wine!

As long as it is someone else's flappy wine.


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[geek]

What about juice buckets that come pre-balanced, like the MM Fresco from Chile....

 

[grapeman]

Some will say not to do it with juice buckets either since they are balanced, but mlf can provide more to a wine than just reducing malic acid. If you check the wine for some malic acid content, there is really no reason not to consider doing a malo on it to get some of the other benefits to mouthfeel, taste, etc.