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Safe Alcoholic Fermentation: Providing Complete Nutrition for the Yeast

Balanced nutrition promotes yeast growth and optimizes the sensory impact of fermentation. Simply providing ammonia nitrogen and thiamine is not always enough for…

Successful Yeast and Malolactic Bacteria Co-inoculation: Red Wine Vinification

Co-inoculating a must with yeast and malolactic bacteria accelerates the onset of malolactic fermentation (MLF) and makes it possible in difficult cases. …

Successful Yeast and Malolactic Bacteria Co-inoculation:White Wine Vinification

Co-inoculating a must with yeast and malolactic bacteria accelerates the onset of malolactic fermentation (MLF) and makes it possible in difficult cases. This…

Good Practices for Malolactic Bacteria

Proper rehydration and inoculation of lactic bacteria is a crucial step for their survival and malolactic activity. To learn more about this…

Timing the Inoculation with Malolactic Bacteria

Numerous parameters are involved in selecting bacteria for malolactic fermentation (MLF). Choosing the right moment for inoculating wine with selected bacteria is…

Predicting Malolactic Fermentation

Numerous conditions influence the development and activity of malolactic bacteria in wine. Malolactic fermentation (MLF) that is spontaneously triggered too early or too…

Good Practices for Restarting a Stuck Fermentation

A sluggish or stuck alcoholic fermentation (AF) can be avoided by using good rehydration practices, yeast protection and balanced nutrition. However, certain…

ACETALDEHYDE MANAGEMENT DURING WINEMAKING

The topic of acetaldehyde is very interesting as this compound has SO2 binding properties. The proper choice of wine yeast and bacteria…

CO-INOCULATION OF SELECTED WINE BACTERIA

This Winemaking Expert explores the ever increasing practice of co-inoculation. In France and Spain for example, close to 50% of MLF is…

GLUTATHIONE AND ITS APPLICATION IN WINEMAKING

This edition of ‘The Wine Expert’ discusses how Glutathione -rich ‘specific inactivated yeast’ are natural winemaking tools.   OptiMUM White is a specific inactivated…