“…The occurrence of tartrate salt crystals (potassium hydrogen tartrate -KHT and calcium tartrate -CaT) in bottles, with dramatic consequences in the final aspect of the wine, makes tartrate wine stabilization imperative before bottling. Preventive solutions of tartrate precipitation range from physic and chemical treatments to subtractive and additive processes, like cold stabilization (BLOUIN et al, 1979;BURNETT, 1982;SERRANO et al, 1983;MAUJEAN, 1994;MINGUEZ and HERNÁNDEZ, 1998), electrodialysis (ESCUDIER et al, 1985;MOUTOUNET et al, 1997;CAMEIRA-DOS-SANTOS et al, 2000), ion-exchange (AUSTERWEIL, 1953(AUSTERWEIL, , 1955DAL CIN, 1984;RANKINE, 1985;MOURGUES, 1993;BENITEZ et al, 2002a), and using protective colloids like yeast mannoproteins (LUBBERS et al, 1993;MOINE-LEDOUX et al, 1997;FEUILLAT and CHARPENTIER, 1998;MOINE-LEDOUX and DUBOURDIEU, 2002a, b) or metatartric acid (WUCHERPFENNIG, 1973;COLAGRANDE, 2002).…”