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Ben Justman🍷 · 15w
I used to advertise that my wine was naturally fermented. I've stopped. I had never added yeast, but I learned that most "natural fermentations" aren't what they claim to be, including mine. Yeast l...
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All natural fermentations until the modern period occurred in places with hundreds if not thousands of years of winemaking history that selected for the traits of those regional wines over many generations of humans and exponentially more generations of yeast. If you try a natural fermentation in Italy it will be vastly different (and probably better) than one done in the United States.

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nami · 15w
Still the yeast has the influence Ben described