tartaric

The diseases known as tartaric, especially gout and lithiasas, are caused by the deposit of determinate toxins (tartar), are discovered chiefly by the urine test, and are cured by means of alkalies.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

The unripe grape contains a certain percentage of vegetable acids, such as tartaric, malic, &c., &c. some of which are themselves converted into glucose during the process of ripening, whilst others are eliminated after helping to transform the starch of the vegetable tissues into glucose.

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

The unripe grape contains a certain percentage of vegetable acids, such as tartaric, malic, &c., &c. some of which are themselves converted into glucose during the process of ripening, whilst others are eliminated after helping to transform the starch of the vegetable tissues into glucose.

The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

They do not think it likely that the potash exists in fresh plantain juice as carbonate, but rather that this salt is the product of decomposition, arising from a compound of potash and a vegetable acid, such as tartaric or oxalic acid present in the fresh juice; be this as it may, any utility derivable from the plantain juice is evidently owing to the potash it contains.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Or it could be a tsunami of tartaric crystals, which can be caused excessive by cold exposure.

Waiter, there’s a snow globe in my wine! [tartaric crystals] | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

If they are tartaric crystals, consider this from the Oxford Companion to Wine: Only the most informed consumers appreciate the harmlessness of tartrate crystals in bottle.

Waiter, there’s a snow globe in my wine! [tartaric crystals] | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

In the mid-nineteenth century, the renowned microbiologist and chemist Louis Pasteur took on one of the puzzles of the day: why a solution with tartaric acid derived from living things in this case, the discarded yeast remains of the winemaking process behaved differently from a solution with the same tartaric acid that had been made synthetically.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

In the mid-nineteenth century, the renowned microbiologist and chemist Louis Pasteur took on one of the puzzles of the day: why a solution with tartaric acid derived from living things in this case, the discarded yeast remains of the winemaking process behaved differently from a solution with the same tartaric acid that had been made synthetically.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

What Pasteur correctly made of this is that the molecules of tartaric acid could exist in either a “right-handed” or “left-handed” form, rather like left- and right-handed gloves.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

Pasteur grew crystals of a compound including the tartaric acid and noticed that they came in two nonsymmetric forms that were nonetheless mirror images of each other.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011