The nutrient most often lacking in must is nitrogen, specifically yeast-assimilable nitrogen (YAN), the content of which is an indicator of the fermentability of the must and the quality of the wine produced. When there is a deficiency of YAN, the yeasts are faced with difficult conditions for alcoholic fermentation, often resulting in stuck or sluggish fermentation. This often happens during fermentation of late harvest must, musts which are prouced from grapes, infected with Botrytis, or very clear musts that often have high sugar content and low YAN. With various measures in the vineyard and during alcoholic fermentation (AF), winemakers can significantly influence the quality of the wine produced. We were interested in the influence of the addition of various modern nutrients for yeasts with an increased content of nitrogen compounds to musts of three different varieties, which represent demanding conditions for the implementation AF, on the course of AF, on the chemical and sensory composition of the wines produced. We added three different yeast nutrients to each must (Go-Ferm Sterol Flash, Go-Ferm Protect Evolution, Fermaid O), and used a different time and temperature of rehydration of the ICV D47 yeast starter culture. We concluded that the kineticts and the speed of alcoholic fermentation of the samples with different nutrients are different, and they are also different for the musts of the three different varieties used, with Malvasia and Welschriesling being very similar. Fermentation of Žametna črnina (ŽČ) must was completed more quickly due to its higher initial content YAN and lower sugar content. Moreover, in ŽČ the second addition of nutrients occured at 2/3 of AF and not at 1/3 of AF as in the other two varieties, where the cinetics and speed of AF improved by this addition. We found that, except for ŽČ, nutrients did not affect the good completion of AF in the produced wine (the content of reducing sugars was relatively high), but they did affect the better kinetics and speed of AF in all varieties. For the most part, the nutrients had a positive effect on the chemical composition of the wine produced.
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