We Don’t Want the Funk (in our Wine)
We Don’t Want the Funk (in our Wine)
Dec 27, 2011 6
(KQED) - Wine sometimes tastes a bit funky because it was contaminated during fermentation with a yeast called Brettanomyces bruxellensis. This yeast can give wine a variety of interesting flavors like “…horse sweat, Band Aid, barnyard, and burnt plastic…”
Winemakers usually keep this from happening by killing off the yeast with those dreaded sulfites. But for awhile now, people in the know have been worrying about the emergence of a sulfite-resistant form of this yeast. And this is a well founded fear.
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