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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 205, Issue -, Pages 7-15Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2015.03.027
Keywords
Wine; Yeast; Non-Saccharomyces; Low alcohol; Oxygen
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- Australian Government
- Department of Education, Science and Training, Australian Government
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spain)
- Australia's grapegrowers and winemakers
- Becas Chile Fellowship
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High alcohol concentrations reduce the complexity of wine sensory properties. In addition, health and economic drivers have the wine industry actively seeking technologies that facilitate the production of wines with lower alcohol content. One of the simplest approaches to achieve this aim would be the use of wine yeast strains which are less efficient at transforming grape sugars into ethanol, however commercially available wine yeasts produce very similar ethanol yields. Non-conventional yeast, in particular non-Saccharomyces species, have shown potential for producing wines with lower alcohol content. These yeasts are naturally present in the early stages of fermentation but in general are not capable of completing alcoholic fermentation. We have evaluated 48 non-Saccharomyces isolates to identify strains that, with limited aeration and in sequential inoculation regimes with S. cerevisiae, could be used for the production of wine with lower ethanol concentration. Two of these, Torulaspora delbrueckii AWRI1152 and Zygosaccharomyces bailii AWRI1578, enabled the production of wine with reduced ethanol concentration under limited aerobic conditions. Depending on the aeration regime T. delbrueckii AWRI1152 and Z bailii AWRI1578 showed a reduction in ethanol concentration of 1.5% (v/v) and 2.0% (v/v) respectively, compared to the S. cerevisiae anaerobic control. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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