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 has been ...

Just how does grape juice become wine anyway? In today's edition of Ask The Expert we examine the core process behind the ...

Carbonic maceration wines are increasingly in demand on the market. They are young red wines in which floral and fresh fruit aromas predominate and they must be consumed within the first year. The ...

Wasp intestines provide a good mating environment for the yeast that’s responsible for our wine, beer, and bread. The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week, ...

Your typical California winemaker would be in despair if her efforts had resulted in the kind of wine that Mandy Heldt Donovan just made. But Donovan did it on purpose. Donovan inoculated a wine with ...

However, one of the most well-known characteristics of yeast is the ability of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, baker's yeast, to ferment sugar to 2-carbon components, in particular ethanol, without ...

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It's National Wine Day, and there's no better way to celebrate than to drink wine, of course. But if you want to really spice up your Wine Day festivities (or any other wine night), you should ...