4 minutes ago, liuzhou said:
I don't even know what that is meant to mean. It's nonsensical.
It makes perfect sense. Yeast doesn't exist for fermentation. Yeast is a group of organisms. The wine world simply cannot rename parts of microbiology because it's convenient to wine. But then again, it's completely expected from the wine community.
Edited: Maybe it's still unclear. Fungi behave the way they do well before any fermentation for ethanol for humans. Terminology goes way beyond any food application, beer, wine, cheese, distilled spirits.