Maximize sensory impact by managing pre-fermentation
Ensure the highest final wine quality by effectively managing pre-fermentation, a natural stage in winemaking.
Specialty yeasts for use before and during fermentation
Novonesis Viniflora™ pre-fermentative yeasts have been selected for their unique properties to assist you through the early stages of the winemaking process.
Learn more about the benefits of this remarkable group in this brochure.
Safer shipment with less sulfites
Viniflora™ Frootzen™ is the first commercial product based on a selected Pichia kluyveri yeast strain, protecting grapes, must or wine from microbes and oxidation, even in tough conditions. Now also in freeze-dried format for easy use, it ensures safer shipment to the winery – no rehydration needed.
Fruity notes, brightness and intense flavors
Boost the fruity notes, especially in white and rosé wines with Frootzen™. It delivers brightness, intense flavors and aroma, elegance and freshness to wines. Frootzen™ also enables fast production of esters and thiols, ideal for premiumizing white, rosé, and light red wines, or improving wines from poor harvests or over-cropping.
A range of benefits
Bioprotect your juice and must
Viniflora™ Prelude™, our selected strain of Torulaspora delbrueckii, is renowned for offering excellent protection during cold soaking for maceration prior to alcoholic fermentation.
Increase flavor complexity and weight
Viniflora™ Prelude™ is used in sequential inoculation, two days before Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It increases the body, softens the palate and rounds the mouthfeel of wines.
It is particularly suitable for premium and ultra-premium wines that will be aged in cooperage.
Protection from unwanted MLF
Novonesis NoVA™ Protect is a strain of Lactobacillus plantarum with a proven bacteriostatic effect against rogue Oenococcus oeni. Where legislation allows, it can be added when harvesting red wine grapes, or even added to the fermenter for cleaner primary fermentation.
A range of benefits Natural acidification from yeast
Viniflora™ Octave™ and Concerto™ are Lachancea thermotolerans yeasts that can convert a proportion of grape sugars to lactic acid. Octave™ refreshes white and rosé wines from warm-climate regions, imparting freshness and bright red-fruit character prevent unwanted malolactic fermentation (MLF).
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Nature’s most interesting wild yeast delivers intense flavors while giving protection against spoilage
- Mask Green notes Produced 2-PE and 2-PEA Can implant and reproduce in cold conditions
For natural acidity that refreshes white and rosé wines from warm-climate regions
Other wine applications
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