Adelaide University PhD student finds dealcoholisation tech helps mitigate smoke taint

Research from a PhD student at the Adelaide University has found technology that removes alcohol from wine can be merged with traditional remediation techniques to alleviate smoke taint, diminishing its impact on wine’s sensory elements. Spinning one column (SCC) distillation is a leading technology for dealcoholisation, used for creating no- and low-alcohol wine products. When combined with the use of activated carbon, which is traditionally used to remove impurities from wine, the Adelaide University found that SCC distillation “achieved a better overall outcome compared to the use of activated carbon alone”.