Why does wine not need mixed or stirred? Is the alcohol distributed evenly or is it stronger at the bottom of the bottle?
Interesting how many basically inaccurate guesses are here. I'll give my answer as an amateur wine maker and also a PH.D. scientist.
The Short Answer
Interesting how many basically inaccurate guesses are here. I'll give my answer as an amateur wine maker and also a PH.D. scientist. 1. Most wines do not contain sediments. These sediments such as the yeast and byproducts of fermentation are removed from wine either by filtration or by [fining](_URL_1_) a wine. Without such "larger" sediments you will not really need to mix a wine, and this is why: 1. The ingredients in wine mix naturally by [Brownian motion](_URL_0_) which basically means that the alcohol particles and all the other stuff in the wine are small enough particles that they won't really separate under normal conditions because all of the particles are bouncing around too much that even if they did kind of settle, they would just pop back up into the mixture (that is overly simple, but you get the idea). So all of the wine will be essentially uniform under normal conditions. This might be different if you were to ultracentrifuge the wine for example.
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Interesting how many basically inaccurate guesses are here. I'll give my answer as an amateur wine maker and also a PH.D. scientist. 1. Most wines do not contain sediments. These sediments such as the yeast and byproducts of fermentation are removed…
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