MLF and Sorbate

[homer]

OK, tell me again, why do you not add Sorbate after MLF? How do you keep the bugs at bay? bk

 

[Angie]

From the BCAWA website...." Do not use it in any wine that has undergone MLF; if the MLF recurs, the resultant unpleasant odour will be geraniol, a geranium-like smell."

You can run the risk of testing to make sure MLF is done, add your p-metabisulphite, and then sweeten and sorbate but if testing/additions are incorrect MLF can start up again.

After MLF is done you can add metabisulphite ( sterile filtered with an addition of SO2. So far, I have not had any renewed malolactic fermentation.)...again from BCAWA article

 

[Tom]

Yep, above got it covered...