The Impact of Fermenter Shape on the Performance of White Wine Alcoholic Fermentation and the Composition of the Resulting Wines in Laboratory-Scale Trials.

ABSTRACT: A great variety of vessels, including tanks with different shapes and made with different materials, have been installed in wineries during the last decade. However, the influence of the vessel shape itself during alcoholic fermentation and finished wine composition has not been assessed. In the present study, four different shaped borosilicate flasks (cylindrical, conical, ovoid, and spherical) were used to perform alcoholic fermentation of white grape juice in triplicate, following two different inoculation procedures: monoinoculation with a Saccharomyces cerevisiae commercial strain and sequential inoculation with Metschnikowia pulcherrima and Saccharomyces cerevisiae commercial strains. The shape of the fermenter impacted alcoholic fermentation performance and the composition of the re

SUBMITTER: Cordova-Palominos P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12278351 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature