Wine Word of the Week: Sulfur dioxide
Thursday, August 13th, 2009This week’s Wine Word of the Week is sulfur dioxide. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Sulfur dioxide, or SO2, formed when elemental sulfur is burned in air, is the chemical compound most widely used by the winemaker, principally as a preservative and a disinfectant. …. Sulfur dioxide reacts with oxygen […]
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