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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wine Word of the Week: Yeast
This week’s Wine Word of the Week is yeast. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Yeast, microscopic, single-celled fungi, having round to oval cells which reproduce by forming buds, are vital to the alcoholic fermentation process, which, starved of oxygen, transforms grape juice into wine. Sugars are used as an energy [...]
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