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How is it even a wine at this point? Doesn’t it naturally become vinegar after long enough?

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When it oxidizes yes iirc. No or ultra low oxygen content means that process is greatly delayed.

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Oxidization is not the process that turns wine into vinegar, it is a secondary fermentation by bacteria that does it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_of_vinegar

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Buddy…

that sometimes develops on fermenting alcoholic liquids during the process that turns alcohol into acetic acid *with the help of oxygen from the air and acetic acid bacteria (AAB). It

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