Sofralab and NIZO: wine yeast
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Starter selection
Sofralab, a French wine ingredients supplier, wants to characterize its wine yeast culture collection in more detail in order to fulfill the needs of its customers. The use of selected wine yeast starters for alcoholic fermentation is a common practice in France.
Microscale fermentation
However, traditional screening and selection methods are time consuming and laborious. Therefore NIZO food research developed a microscale alcoholic fermentation platform for fast and semi-automated screening of wine yeasts.
Flavour optimisation
Via this approach strains are clustered with respect to their growth and flavour formation characteristics. Moreover, NIZO is currently developing sensitive methods for the detection of specific fermentative flavour compounds essential for quality description of different wine varieties.