| The importance of wine making yeast has largely | | | | its alcoholic content, and other things. In wine |
| been ignored by novice winemakers; in truth, wine | | | | making, yeast is controlled through selecting the |
| making is actually the job of the yeast. | | | | appropriate yeast variety, the perfect moment to |
| Winemakers are called such because of the | | | | introduce it to the grape juice, the right |
| participation they have in moving and mixing and | | | | temperature to keep it in, and the sugar that is |
| bottling; but the yeast is actually the ingredient | | | | added, along with other nutrients that will make |
| that makes the wine, not the person. | | | | the yeast work. |
| Wine making yeast is essentially a fungi - a | | | | For the best quality wines, make sure that you |
| single-celled organism that catalyses the | | | | take care of your wine making yeast. You will |
| fermentation process that produces the wine we | | | | need to make sure that these tiny plants have |
| serve on the dinner table or give as presents to | | | | everything it needs - a stable temperature, sugar, |
| our friends and family. | | | | an acidic environment, and a little oxygen. |
| There is no evidence to suggest when the real | | | | Standard varieties are usually acceptable but if |
| wines started to be produced; the only thing we | | | | you are feeling more amorous, you can purchase |
| can assume is that somewhere, someone | | | | the more specialized kinds. |
| accidentally left grape juice that somehow | | | | The alcoholic content of your wine is also |
| became fermented by wild yeast and someone | | | | dependent on the amount of sugar fermented by |
| else was thirsty enough to drink it. We of course | | | | the wine making yeast into alcohol. Wine |
| do not know exactly when early wine drinkers | | | | traditionally contains low volumes of alcohol; yeast |
| discovered its intoxicating properties. | | | | is also used for distilled liquor, or those that |
| The art of wine making is definitely dependent on | | | | contain higher alcohol content. If you are uncertain |
| the yeast. This yeast, when controlled by the | | | | about the yeast you should use with grapes, |
| person making the wine, is the prime determinant | | | | consult wine making forums online or your wine |
| of how the wine would taste the wine's coloring, | | | | making guide. |