From Winish to Turkish: Malolactic Fermentation
Although it has fermentation in its name, don't believe it, this is actually a chemical process consisting of the transformation of one acid into another. If we know what fermentation is today, we owe this information to Louis Pasteur. Thanks to the studies he conducted approximately 150 years ago, we understood the role of yeast in fermentation, and with the developments made since then, wine producers have the conditions in which they can produce wine more safely. Scientists who followed the path opened by Pasteur were able to explain many other processes in this field in their advanced researches, both with the guidance of accumulated knowledge and with the developing technological equipment. Among these studies, today's topic is malolactic fermentation or, more correctly, malolactic transformation.
