Unfiltered Wine

Wine is usually filtered before bottling to remove any solids particles or sediment. This renders the wine visibly clear. Sometimes winemakers will decide to not filter a red wine feeling that filtration removes some of its character. As part of its regular evolution, red wine will throw a deposit in the bottle with age anyway, but if it is not filtered, it will most likely be cloudy with a deposit right away. Older reds are usually decanted off their sediment, but an unfiltered wine, even young, would benefit from this procedure. So if a young red wine you’ve just purchased is cloudy in your glass, chances are it’s unfiltered. Somewhere on the label, front or back, it will probably indicate such.