Unfiltered Wines

Filtering wine before bottling removes any minute, suspended particals like yeast and renders it clear. Other than something like pulpy orange juice, we like our liquids this way. However, some producers, in their wisdom, decide not to filter certain wines before bottling, claiming that the process removes some of it’s character. You’ll see this more in red wines than white and these unfiltered selections generally throw their deposit in the bottle over time, requiring them to be decanted before consumption. It will often say somewhere on the front or back label that the wine has not been filtered. Sometimes a selling point and other times not! Funny, but unfiltered wines always seem to cost more!