Strawberry Wine

[BettyJ]

Gas in wine

Did someone say that freezing the fruit first will help this down the road? Or does it just help with the breakdown of fruit to juice?

I guess it is so warm here that is why I have never had to de-gas a wine yet.

 

[Tom]

It helps extract the juices which in turn helps the wine down the road.

 

[Wade E]

Freezing the fruit first will break the cellular walls of most fruit open like small berries or even crab apples and is very good to do if you dont have a press too do this for you so that the pectic enzyme can get in there and do its thing.

 

[BettyJ]

Freezing fruit

That's what I thought (have been doing this ever since joining this forum)... so this wouldn't have anything to do with gas in the wine later? What if you just started with the plain juice?

 

[Wade E]

It will not help juice at all and has nothing to do with gas in the wine.