Saccharomyces cerevisiae hybrid for fresh, fruity white and rosé wines.
Legacy range
LEGACY – the first hybrid wine yeast strain. The Legacy range includes the best-known isolates and hybrids. All are robust strains that tolerate a wide range of temperatures and alcohol levels and ensure complete, reliable fermentation. They also produce highly aromatic white, rosé and red wines.
Purpose
VIN 13 is the first commercial hybrid wine yeast, with proven results and performance. It ferments strongly and quickly. It enhances volatile thiol aromas (passion fruit, grapefruit, gooseberry and guava) and produces esters (tropical fruit salad, floral notes).
Recommended for Chardonnay, Chenin blanc, Riesling, Semillon, Gewürztraminer, Viognier, Pinot gris, Marsanne, Roussanne and all Muscat varieties. Also ideal for aromatic rosé wines from all red varieties.
Tasting notes. VIN 13 produces esters and enhances thiols: banana and pineapple aromas, or rather tropical fruit salad, guava and sweets, and in rosé wines it enhances strawberry, raspberry and cherry.
Features
| Fermentation kinetics | |
|---|---|
| Speed | very strong fermentation, cool fermentation recommended |
| Conversion factor | 0,58–0,63 |
| Technical characteristics | |
| Cold tolerance | 10 °C |
| Optimum temperature | 11–28 °C |
| Osmotolerance | 27 °Balling/Brix; 14,9 Baumé |
| Alcohol tolerance | 17% vol. |
| Foam formation | low |
| Metabolic characteristics | |
| Glycerol | 5–7 g/L |
| Volatile acidity | below 0.3 g/L |
| SO2 | none to very low |
| Nitrogen requirement | low |
| Phenotype | |
| Killer | positive |
| Cinnamyl decarboxylase activity | negative (POF-) |
Anchor Legacy VIN 13 contains more than 10 billion active dry yeast cells per gram.
Origin
VIN 13 is a product of the yeast hybridisation programme of the Department of Microbiology and the Institute for Wine Biotechnology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Dosage
20 g/hL.
Packaging and storage
1 kg vacuum packs, 10 packs per carton, and 5 kg packs. Store in a cool (5–15 °C), dry place, sealed in the original packaging.
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