Have you at any point run over what have all the earmarks of being white chips gliding in your jug of wine? Did you accept that this snow-globe appearance by one means or another implied the wine was defective or destroyed? 
What you had in all probability observed are tartaric gems, normally alluded to as "wine precious stones" or Weinstein ("wine stone") in German talking nations. So do these wine precious stones flag an awful container of wine? 
Assessments about this issue are separated and the reason is basic: you have purchased immaculate wine, yet you have not purchased stylishly impeccable wine. Contingent on where you are from, this can matter to you pretty much. 
The American wine consumer is not used to discovering wine precious stones in their containers. Here, most wines experience a frosty adjustment prepare, which is the point at which a wine is chilled off before it is packaged so that the white chips, called solidified tartaric corrosive, "drop out" and can be isolated from the wine. In any case, what value excellence? Frosty adjustment impacts a wine's adjust and taste: as a few winemakers put it, the wine is really being tore separated, and the quick cooling changes the wine's colloidal structure. One may call it an unmistakable instance of style over substance. 
There is another intriguing relationship between's wine stones and the nature of a wine: the more drawn out the grapes hold tight the vine (recognizably called "hang time"), the more wine corrosive will aggregate in the grape, and it is this wine corrosive which is the building square of wine precious stones. Besides, the additional time the wine is given to age, the less wine precious stones will drop out amid aging, however the more they will rather develop later in the jug. 
At the end of the day, wine precious stones are a marker that the grapes aged for quite a while, and that the winemaker aged the wine gradually and with extraordinary care. Both are essential forerunners to making excellent wines. 
Hans Gsellmann, head winemaker of the popular Gsellmann and Gsellmann winery in Austria, clarifies it along these lines: "Some portion of the grapes corrosive are tartrates, otherwise known as salt. As the wine matures these tartaric corrosive precious stones drop out. It's a characteristic procedure a wine will experience on its way to the pinnacle of its improvement. When you see these chips at the base of the jug or on the plug, you can be practically sure that you are opening the wine at the perfect time. You ought to see yourself as fortunate." 
Wine fans in the Old World are known to search out the containers with wine stones as an indication of value: it demonstrates that the wine has not been burglarized of its structure through unnatural chilling, and it is an indication of a very much developed wine. Maybe it is because of the more drawn out history of winemaking in these nations that individuals have turned out to be usual to wine stones and appear to acknowledge them. At any rate they appear to realize that, on the off chance that anything, the wine jewels will have added roundness to the wine by subtracting a portion of the corrosive from it.