Click here to see a chart of suggested wine yeasts to use for the wine you are making.
This is extremely helpful when making wine from fruit other than grapes.
This wine yeast ferments clean, neutral, to dryness, and is a fast fermenter. Handles a wide variety of fermenting conditions
Excellent all purpose yeast. Good for full bodied white wines. Fast fermenter may produce hydrogen sulfide.
Formerly called Montrachet.
Excellent for darker fruits like cherries berries and full bodied reds use for Burgundy Cabernet Zinfandel and Rhone.
Formerly Pasteur Red
Highlights the fruitiness in wines thus excellent for fruit wines. Also good for Merlot and Cabernet.
Good for dry red wines where full grape flavor is desired. Produces aromas of ripe berries and fruit.
Good for fruit wines fast fermenter handles difficult fermenting musts well. Neutral flavors.
Excellent for Mead Chardonnay and other dry white wines. Produces good mouthfeel. From Cote de Rhone France.
This is the "champagne" strain in the Lalvin line.
Ferments down to 45 degrees neutral flavor low foaming 18% alcohol. fast fermenter
Good for young red wines and sweet wines. Produces fruity aromas reduces malic acids and softens wine.
