Choosing which type of yeast to use for the fermentation, when making wine, is a crucial decision for winemakers. They can choose to ferment “spontaneously” or buy cultured yeast. The issue ...

Winemakers discuss how they use indigenous or commercial yeast to influence the fermentation of grapes and affect the flavor it their wine.

Given the diverse types and flavor profiles in the wine world, you might expect there to be great genetic variation between the yeast strains that make it, but researchers have struggled to find much ...

When we delve into what goes into making a particular wine, enologists often talk about their yeast program, including the decision to use native yeast that is living on the skins of their grapes or ...

Isak Pretorius, yeast biologist at the University of South Australia in Adelaide adds that scientists have described less than 1% of the estimated 700,000 strains of wine yeast worldwide.

Yeast is one of the primary factors affecting how a wine will taste. Its primary job is to convert the sugar in the grape ...

Lioco uses only wild yeast but defines natural wine differently from Donkey & Goat -- for example, all its Chardonnays are fermented in stainless steel tanks.

Wine yeast genomes lack diversity Date: April 7, 2016 Source: Genetics Society of America Summary: Sequencing the genomes of hundreds of strains of the wine yeast S. cerevisiae has revealed little ...

The S. cerevisiae strains her team uncovered on the coffee and cacao, on the other hand, have a mix of wine yeast DNA and local wild yeasts. Despite their strong similarities, ...

Instead of the recommended red wine yeast, I mistakenly ordered champagne yeast. This wasn't the end of the world: My vino may have even turned out better than it would have otherwise.