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Recently I purchased a couple of bottles of Raspberry Wine when I was out of town and on vacation. Now that I've got them home, there seems to be a white sediment in the bottom of them.
Is the wine still good? Should I just drink from the top or mix the sediment around before drinking?
I don't know about raspberry wine, but with standard wine (from grapes), bottles usually only throw a sediment if they're several yrs old, or they've been "naturally" processed with no fining/no filtration. Most big commercial wineries do in fact fine & filter for consistency & clarity, so if this were grape wine from Gallo or Yellow Tail, I'd tell you to return the bottles to your market for an exchange. But with raspberry fruit wine white residue might be normal? See if you can find an email address for the winery and ask them.
Sediment has been at the bottom of some wine bottles for millenia.
When a wine has a sediment it is supposed to be decanted not poured. Decanting is to pour the bottle through a strainer that is placed over another container that catches the wine minus the sediment.
Hi, breezy! My favorite winery in Bloomington, Indiana has a couple of varieties which produce sediment after several months. They tell you at the time of purchase that if it's not consumed within 6 months you'll see some sediment. It's still okay to drink, but these particular wines are best consumed sooner than later. One was blackberry wine; I don't remember what fruit the other was made from.
I called the winery. The sediment is normal and the wine is safe to drink. I'm going to try it in the near future.
As the other member wrote, "decant" the wine by strainiing through a filter, or cheesecloth placed over a strainer, into a nice decanter. Sediment tatses dry and nasty and looks terrible in your glass. Happy drinking!
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