Campden and Color

[CowboyPhil]

Has anyone had an issue with adding Campden to a finished wine and it removes the color? What happened?

 

[naperwineguy]

I've never heard of this happening. Ever. There has to be something else at work here. Can you describe in detail what you did and what you observed?

 

[robie]

I've never heard of it, either.

 

[winemaker_3352]

I have heard that if you wine has experience oxidation - that SO2 addition can help dissipate the color a bit.

 

[robie]

I have heard that if you wine has experience oxidation - that SO2 addition can help dissipate the color a bit.

Some clearing agent can also strip color. Can't forget that excessive filtering can, too.

 

[winemaker_3352]

Some clearing agent can also strip color. Can't forget that excessive filtering can, too.

Yup - that is true - just be sure you are not filtering a murky wine. Only filter a clear wine.

 

[Wade E]

Ive heard of the sulfites doing this a few times especially with Strawberry wine for some reason.

 

[CowboyPhil]

It was watermelon that it did it with, It went from red to almost a chardonnay color. It was odd.

 

[homer]

A couple of questions: What was the PH? How much Kmeta did you add? bk

 

[Arne]

Did you rack it when this happened?? I had a strawberry that was a nice pretty red, it cleared and I racked it off. It stayed the red color until I picked up a little of the lees. Then it turned the orangish color most strawberry finishes at. Cleared nice afterwards, but kept the diff. color. Arne.

 

[CowboyPhil]

I realized much later that this was because the whole batch went horribly awry. The finished wine tasted salty (yes you read that right) and smelled like fritos. I am thinking some bad bacteria got in there.