Unfiltered Wine?

[Thomas]

Fixx, we are talking about commercial wines; I don't think coffee filtering would work too well in that situation....

I think in home winemaking filtering is both unnecssary and likely unwanted. But when you have a few thousand cases to sell, most of your market isn't going to take kindly to things floating in the wine.

Something you said brings up a thought: you claim unfiltered wine is the "real way" of making wine. In Roman and Greek times wine received generous additions of sea water, pine resin, honey and a host of other additives. One could also make the claim that that is the "real way" to make wine. And before the medieval French made oak storage the norm, wines were shipped and stored mainly in amphora--that would have to be the "real way" to do that.

My point: the world is in constant change.