[Avodah] Ta'aroves of yayn mevushal

[David Riceman]

RRW:
>> I open a bottle of nonmevushal wine. Q: in order to avoid
>> contamination by a non-Jew may I mix in mevushal wine? Or
>> must I mevashel the original wine by itself?
>>     
RAM:
>
> Rabbi Binyomin Forst's "The Laws of Kashrus" (ArtScroll) writes (pg 63): "Yayin nesech, due to its association with avodah zarah, cannot become batel in any amount of wine. It can become batel, however with other foods in a sixty to one ratio - batel b'shishim. (Rambam [Maachalos Asuros] 15:6)"
>
> Unfortunately for your question, he does not say whether or not this would also apply to stam yaynam.
>   
Why would it need to become batel if it's not yet assur?  WRT the 
original question, see Tshuvos HaRambam, ed. Blau, #269, where he cites 
the Ri MiGash as recommending mixing honey in with the wine if a non-Jew 
enters the room, and says "v'chen asu halacha l'ma'aseh, hu v'chol 
gedolei Sfarad", though, IIRC, Rabbeinu Yonah in Sha'arei Tshuva disagrees.
It's not obvious to me how mevushal wine would work in that capacity 
unless it was rov.

David Riceman