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The numbers of yeasts associated with wine grapes of Bordeaux

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A few days before vintage, yeasts were isolated quantitatively from three varieties of wine grape from three châteaux of the Graves region of the Gironde. There were about 105 viable yeasts/g of grape, from which only Kloeckera apiculata, Metschnikowia pulcherrima and one or more species of Rhodotorula were isolated.

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  1. School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.

    James A. Barnett, Margaret A. Delaney, Eryl Jones, Anne B. Magson & Brenda Winch

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Barnett, J.A., Delaney, M.A., Jones, E. et al. The numbers of yeasts associated with wine grapes of Bordeaux. Archiv. Mikrobiol. 83, 52–55 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00425044

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