Wine taste like soap??

[tony31]

Hello everyone. Me and the wife made a blueberry wine that we have made a lot. Today we where going to degauss it and get it ready for bottling. Wife took a sample and said it had a soapy taste. Checked PH 3.4 and acid was .8. We know for a fact that no soap has been introduced. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

 

[pumpkinman2012]

Soapy taste usually is a result of high PH, is your PH meter calibrated?
What was the last thing that you added to your wine, maybe something to balance it?
I would add yeast hulls, click here, yeast hulls can absorb some of the factors that may be causing this.

I hope that this helps

 

[Yooper]

The other thing that can cause a soapy taste is if the wine sat a long time on lees. The break down of fatty acids in the lees essentially creates soap- hence the soapy taste.

If this wine spent a long time on the lees, it could be the cause and it would not be fixable.

 

[gregbathurst]

Malolactic fermentation can cause a soapy taste, but it goes after a couple of months. You may be getting wild MLF. Or it may be an infection like brettanomyces, but that is usually more like band aid or mousiness.

 

[rtrent2002]

This happened to me after a few days into my first Pinot noir kit. The top of the must looked soapy and tasted slightly like dish soap.I was freaking out but it turned out ok. I think mine fermented at too high of temp. I reduced the temp down to around 65 during secondary and that seemed to help.

How did it turn out?

 

[tony31]

Rtrent2002.. We had to through it out..