Yeast For Making Wine

There are many yeast for making wine. Yeast don't just turn sugar to alcohol, they also add other characteristics to your finished wine and can affect the flavour, feel and aroma of the finished wine.

Depending on the style of wine you are making, choosing the best yeast for making wine will mean your wine will have the flavours you want.

Using a process call biotransformation, yeast east sugars, flavour esters and other compounds in your grape juice and, as they digest them, they turn them into new compounds causing your wine to taste very different to the original grape juice.

Yeast can add flavours to your finished wine. Choosing the right wine yeast for the style of wine you are making is important as the yeast add flavours. Using a yeast for red wine can add a spicy punch, and earthiness and even add to the jammy fruity flavours, perhaps not something you want in a chardonnay. Where as a yeast for white wine may add an acidity and a tropical fruit flavour to the finished wine.

Yeast can also affect the mout feel of a finished wine, with different yeast strains affecting the dryness, the acidity and body of a wine.

Not long ago, there were only a few strains of wine yeast available. We now have a large range of wine yeast for you to use to compliment the style of wine you are making.

So, when making your next wine, think about the yeast you are going to use and choose a wine yeast to compliment the wine you are brewing.

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from 343 reviews

Marion Charles

SG Wines (Solomon Grundy) Classic - Sweet White - 7 Day White Wine Kit - 30 Bottles

Brilliant tasty glass of wine.

We have purchased this wine kit numerous times. We have always had a good quality pack of wine. Presented chilled this wine is as good as any shop wine.
Always ready to drink within a couple of weeks .

01/21/2025

Jon Pinnock

White Wine Enhancer and Enricher - 1 Litre - Grape Juice Concentrate - Youngs Definitive

If you want to make a quality wine that you used to by

Quite simply add this .
You will have the fermenter foaming all over the floor and walls but you will have the real quality that you want .
Made fruit wines of all types for years and on some as a hobby , had a go last year base level wine kit and so so ,a bit sweet ok if you only want to get well oiled . But this added to a kit is wow for a nearly sixty year old wine drinker just try adding half the bottle to your next 30 bottle kit you will never go back.

11/14/2024

andy mainwaring

Wine Bottle Shrink Capsules (Caps) - Matt Black - 30 Pack

Bottle tops

Very good works a treat.makes the wine look professional and attractive to the coinesseur.

10/19/2024

Louise Wheeler

Large Mashing - Sparging - Straining Bag

Straining bag great item

I made my first ever wine, blackberry wine using this bag after following David on his Youtube video, great product, less mess and easy to use. Thank you David for your help and support with my order.

08/26/2024

Richard Fothergill

Mangrove Jacks - Apple Cider - 40 Pint Cider Kit

Mangrove Jacks apple cider kit

Easy kit to brew. Pleasant, very refreshing apple flavour ideal for lazy summer days in the sun. Very impressed and intend to try others in this range.👍

06/20/2024

Alex Balfour

Muntons Gold - Imperial Stout - 40 Pint Beer Kit

Early days

Eventually started this one and it went off like a rocket initially. Took a reading yesterday and it was a bit off the recommended fg but will give it another week and check it.Smells amazing though.🤞🏻

02/15/2025

Colin Archer

SG Wines (Solomon Grundy) Gold - Chardonnay - 7 Day White Wine Kit - 30 Bottle

Lovely wine

Fast delivery,arrives well packaged
Excellent value for money and easy to follow instructions 10 out of 10

02/15/2025

jase

Simply - Lager - 40 Pint Beer Kit

simply lager

perfect full of flavour when partnered with light lme pack full bodied taste this man knows his stuff happy as always

02/15/2025

Laurence H.

Spin Vinator - Bottle Washer Steriliser and Rinser for Beer + Wine Bottles

Good

I use this for sterilising bottles, using a zero rinse liquid, before siphoning home brew beer.

02/12/2025

Anthony Davies

Tom Caxton Dark Real Ale Beer Kit - 40 Pint

Tom Caxton Dark Ale

I have brewed this kit a few times and it has always produced a nice tasty ale, I would recommend it to anyone who hasn't tried it yet!

02/11/2025

Anthony Davies

Tom Caxton Dark Real Ale Beer Kit - 40 Pint

Tom Caxtons Dark Real Ale

I have brewed this kit a few times and it has always turned out to be a nice tasty ale, I would recommend it and I will certainly be brewing it again.

02/11/2025