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The Matriarch Of The Chartrons

If you want to understand the modern science of wine, you must eventually study carbon dioxide and the mechanics of alcoholic fermentation. To do that, it helps to look to the Scottish Enlightenment and the brilliant 18th-century chemist Joseph Black, who first discovered CO2. Without having identified CO2, fermenation would have remained a mystery. But […]

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