초록

An apparatus and process for the aerobic oxidative fermentation of an unpreserved wine where the growth of the resident bacteria in the wine is promoted to produce a fermenting wine mixture to which subsequently lesser quantities of unpreserved wine can be succeedingly added and withdrawn.

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An acetic acid fermentation apparatus comprising: a substantially enclosed receptacle which can be partially filled with wine. port means through which said wine charged to and/or discharged from said receptacle; temperature regulating means interiorly positioned said receptacle for maintaining said

An acetic acid fermentation apparatus comprising: a substantially enclosed receptacle which can be partially filled with wine. port means through which said wine charged to and/or discharged from said receptacle; temperature regulating means interiorly positioned said receptacle for maintaining said wine below a desired temperature during the fermentation of said wine; aerating means for impregnating and dispersing an oxygen-bearing gas into said wine at a predefined gas flow rate and in a multidirectional circulation flow sufficient enough to substantially saturate said wine with said gas; and condensing means for returning to said wine in said receptacle substantially all of any vaporized and/or entrained ethanol and acetic acid carried by any exhaust gas coming off of said wine.