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Technical Specifications

PHYSICAL

  • Appearance & colour: Brown Granulated

LIMITS

  • Lead: < 5 mg/kg
  • Mercury: < 1 mg/kg
  • Arsenic: < 3 mg/kg
  • Iron: < 50 mg/kg
  • Insoluble matter (water): < 2 %

CHEMICAL

  • Humidity: < 10 %
  • Ashes: < 4 %

Features and Benefits

Formulation: Preparation made with tannins extracted from oak and proanthocyanidic tannins, bound with vegetal polysaccharides.

Enological benefits:

  • Helps to stabilise colour and gives a light, delicate, and soft tannic structure, enhancing the wine’s own qualities, including balance, roundness, and complex fruit notes.
  • Recommended for all types of wines. For top quality wines, it supports the wine’s quality and highlights its freshness and roundness.
  • For mid-range wines, it adds complexity and significantly improves the structure on the palate and the aromas.

Product Applications

Dissolve in 10 times its weight of wine, then add into the tank during a pump over or during a transfer in order to obtain a perfect homogenization. Softan® Sweetness should be used during aging. Earlier addition is appropriate to benefit from the effects on colour stabilisation.

Dosage:

  • White and rosé wines: 1 to 3 g/hL
  • Red wines: 5 to 20 g/hL

The dosage of tannins depends on each type of wine and winemaking imperatives to be achieved. Preliminary tests are necessary to comply with the oenological codex (OIV).

Impact on filtration: Softan® Sweetness contains protective colloids which may influence filtration. Optimum filterability should be ensured before addition. On wines with a CFLA < 10, the product can be added up to 48 hours before bottling.

Lamothe-Abiet provides single-dose samples (for one bottle) to simplify the calculation of the treatment.

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