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L Perrot1, M Charpentier, C Charpentier
1Institut Universitaire de la Vigne et du Vin, Campus Montmuzard, rue Claude Ladrey, BP 27877, 21000 Dijon, France.
Abstract:
As important as the blend of base wines before bottling, one of the most important steps in the champagne-making process is the long ageing on lees. Two yeast strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae MC001 and MC002, used in champagne wine production, were allowed to autolyse. After 8 days of autolysis, active dry yeasts adapted to wine released 1.7- to 1.8-fold more nitrogen compounds than nonadapted active dry yeast. The nitrogen content (total, proteins, peptides and amino) present in autolysates was measured for yeasts adapted to wine. The composition of free amino acids and amino acids constituting peptides showed no difference between the two strains of yeast used. Studies of intracellular proteolytic activity and release of peptides showed no correlation between these two phenomena. These results indicate that yeasts adapted to wine give results similar to those that occur in wine during ageing.
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