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EKI terminibaas Esterm

ID 705907 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain viticulturealcoholic beverages & non-alcoholic beverages
  • a floating yeast peculiar to FINO sherry and certain other wines that oxidize slowly and tastily under its influence
  • flor yeasts - yeasts which ferment grape juice and subsequently grow as a film on the surface of the wine. They are used in the production of sherry.
flor
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  • Development under flor as referred to in the first subpragraph means the biological process which, occurring when a film of typical yeasts develops spontaneously at the free surface of the wine after total alcoholic fermentation of the must, gives the product specific analytic and organoleptic characteristics.
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