Sunday, August 26, 2007

Hi,

The fermentation process produces approximately .9 lbs of carbon dioxide for
each pound of ethanol.

What happens to the carbon dioxide? Is it vented to the atmosphere?

Sincerely.
Sy
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Most of it is released during fermentation (that's why it is dangerous to lean over open casks and people die each year doing that). Depending on the amount of freshness the winemaker wants in the final product, he will arrange to stop the fermentation and keep more or less dissolved CO2 in the wine. 400 to 600mg/l in red wines, 800 to 1,200 in rosés, 1,200 to 1,500 in white wines and even more in sparkling wines obviously since the famous bubbles are made of CO2!

Dr Mic

Monday, August 20, 2007

Hello!

Wonderful site you have!

We are interested in the monthly wine club - we live in N.J. - how are the wines packed to ensure freshness & no damage from the seasonal heat, or cold, when the order arrives?

Thank you.

Olivia

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We use recycled cardboard boxes most of the times and Styrofoam containers in times of extreme heat or cold. It generally takes 6 to 8 days delivery time.
Damage to the wine is extremely rare and, when assessed, refunded.

Thank you for your interest in the wine club. It's still a small one but our people seem to enjoy it. I rotate wines from different vintages so you never have the same bottle twice (well, exceptionally!). See you there sometime?

Michel
I always have to bring your messages from the "spam filter" file and move to my inbox. Not sure what can be done about that but I definitely want your emails. Is there something I need to do with my filter folks at GCI?

Also, if not for the cost of shipping, I would be ordering you wines. Sure wish you could use USPS.

Hope all is going well and please give my best to Veronique,
Caroline
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Hi Caroline,

Indeed it is illegal to ship wine with USPS! Have you looked up our free shipping offers?
The best way to beat the system is to order a full case for which you get the (relatively speaking) best price per bottle. And you can always make me an offer!

Generally spam filters have a feature like a white list where you can enter email addresses that you want to accept as senders. See if you can find that! The one I use for my newsletters is michel@theorganicwinecompany.com
Also filters often take out emails with HTML (code) content and/or images. Those are settings that you should be able to turn on and off to see what actually goes through. I have no spam filter beyond what my server does and I simply put in the junk folder the addresses I don’t want and that’s enough…