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- verb Present participle of
chaptalize .
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Examples
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Considering it's usually a struggle in Bordeaux to reach 13% without chaptalizing adding sugar to the must to increase alcohol, this is extraordinary.
A Full Year's Look Inside Chateau D'Issan A Look Inside Chateau D'Issan Emmanuel Cruse 2006
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At the lower level some mass-market producers have cynically made their wines sweeter by chaptalizing, a legal method in France of adding sugar to the juice in years that the grapes did not achieve full ripeness.
Alanat News 2008
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