Care must be taken when tartaric acid is added to wine late in the winemaking process. If much tartaric acid is added, the wine may need to be cold stabilized again. Otherwise, tartrate crystals may form in the bottled wine. Thiamine Thiamine is vitamin B-1, and it is essential for healthy yeast growth. Winemakers often add B-1 and other vitamins to juice before starting fermentation.
Trisodium phosphate is a popular cleaning material for all types of winery surfaces.
This material is inexpensive, effective, and it washes away easily. A chlorinated form of trisodium phosphate is also available, and the chlorinated form is a potent sterilizing material. In many commercial wineries, chlorinated TSP is the material of choice for decontaminating large, stainless steel, wine storage tanks. Viniflora Oenos Viniflora Oenos is a freeze-dried culture of malolactic bacteria. Viniflora Oenos has gained popularity rapidly because it can be added directly to the wine in dry form to start malolactic fermentation.