Hello, Alet, and welcome to the forum.
Regarding your question, I am not familiar with using baking powder to reduce the acid in a wine. Baking powder is normally composed of Sodium Bicarbonate, Cream of Tartar and Cornstarch. I am not sure I would want to add the latter two to my wines. A reference I have (The Winemaker's Answer Book by Alison Crowe of Wine Maker magazine) suggests using Potassium Bicarbonate to accomplish this at the rate of 1 gram per liter of wine to reduce the TA by about 1 gram per liter. The directions are as follows: "Dissolve the powder directly into your wine and let settle for six to eight weeks as potassium and tartrate solids will precipitate out (solids settle best once fermentation is complete). Once you've achieved good settling, you can rack the de-acidified wine off the solids."
If you can get this compound, I suggest you try it with a small quantity of the wine to start. If you are pleased with the results, you can de-acidify the rest of your wine. Buona fortuna!
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