Wine Yeasts & Nutrients

Yeast decides more about a wine than most people expect. The same fruit can finish clean and aromatic or stall out sulphury, depending on what you pitched and whether you fed it. Getting this part right is cheap insurance on a whole vintage.

Most of our range is Enartis. Vintage Red and Red Fruit are the ones people reach for with shiraz and cabernet fruit, while Enartis WS suits delicate reds and the Italian varieties. For whites, Aroma White and Vintage White are the usual picks, and EZ Ferm is a steady all rounder. Ferm 488 is aimed at bigger reds with spice and char. Lalvin EC 1118 is the tough one, useful when conditions are less than ideal or when something has gone quiet and needs restarting. Nutrients matter just as much: Nutriferm Advance early in the ferment, Nutriferm Energy and Aroma Plus for aromatic whites, and No Stop when a ferment is dragging its feet. Straight diammonium phosphate is the simple, inexpensive option, and the Enartis four pack fermentation starter kit puts yeast and nutrient together in one box.

Worth knowing: rehydrate dry yeast in water close to the temperature of your must, not hot from the kettle. A big temperature drop when you pitch shocks the yeast and you lose half of it before it has started.

Come and talk it through at Laverton North or Epping, or browse wine making, malolactic bacteria and nutrients and acids, enzymes and additives.

Yeast decides more about a wine than most people expect. The same fruit can finish clean and aromatic or stall out sulphury, depending on what you pitched and whether you fed it. Getting this part right is cheap insurance on a whole vintage.

Most of our range is Enartis. Vintage Red and Red Fruit are the ones people reach for with shiraz and cabernet fruit, while Enartis WS suits delicate reds and the Italian varieties. For whites, Aroma White and Vintage White are the usual picks, and EZ Ferm is a steady all rounder. Ferm 488 is aimed at bigger reds with spice and char. Lalvin EC 1118 is the tough one, useful when conditions are less than ideal or when something has gone quiet and needs restarting. Nutrients matter just as much: Nutriferm Advance early in the ferment, Nutriferm Energy and Aroma Plus for aromatic whites, and No Stop when a ferment is dragging its feet. Straight diammonium phosphate is the simple, inexpensive option, and the Enartis four pack fermentation starter kit puts yeast and nutrient together in one box.

Worth knowing: rehydrate dry yeast in water close to the temperature of your must, not hot from the kettle. A big temperature drop when you pitch shocks the yeast and you lose half of it before it has started.

Come and talk it through at Laverton North or Epping, or browse wine making, malolactic bacteria and nutrients and acids, enzymes and additives.

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