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Treasure Trove of Wine Yeast

By Don Giovanni
March 7, 2012 in Wine

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Posted March 7, 2012

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Posted March 7, 2012

In Sicily,

Treasure Trove of Wine Yeast

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locale wine yeasts reflect the taste of the land that best reflects the grape they worked with...

and the taste of the consumer is always changing...

The local strains consistently produced wines between 12% and 12.5% alcohol by volume. The team members saw very similar alcohol profiles when they mixed a common type of industrial yeast into those same musts.