Clonal diversity of
Abstract
Spontaneous fermentation is the most traditional way and a low-intervention method for conducting alcoholic fermentation in wineries, giving rise to the most complex wine profiles. However, inoculation with single culture inocula of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains has become widespread in the modern wine industry. Nevertheless, some authors have pointed out that the use of the same yeasts in all the winegrowing regions of the world can cause a loss of typicity and have a standardizing effect on the wines. For this reason, many wineries and regions are carrying out programs of isolation and selection of yeasts that are typical of their vineyards/wineries. The aim of this work was to study the ecology of spontaneous fermentations in 11 wineries from all over the Rioja qualified designation of origin (Spain) during 3–4 consecutive years in order to establish the existence of typical strains belonging to wineries, sub-zones, or regional ecosystems. The results obtained showed a great diversity of strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in each fermentation studied. These strains were different each year in each winery, and hardly any common strains were detected between neighboring wineries, which would indicate that there are no representative strains from the winery or the area.
Keywords
- Rioja qualified designation of origin
- alcoholic fermentation
- saccharomyces cerevisiae
- diversity
- ecology
- typical strains
1. Introduction
Spontaneous fermentation is the most traditional way and a low-intervention method for conducting alcoholic fermentation in wineries, giving rise to the most complex wine profiles. This complexity develops because of the large number of different yeast species involved (
Earlier studies have shown that some strains of
Nowadays, many wineries and regions are carrying out strain selection programs with yeasts isolated from their vineyard/winery ecosystems, based on the idea that these yeasts are better adapted to their musts, which have characteristics determined by the grape varieties and the
Rioja is a wine region in Spain with qualified designation of origin status. It is subdivided into three sub-zones: Rioja Alta, Rioja Oriental, and Rioja Alavesa. Rioja Alta is located on the western edge of the region and at higher elevations with an Atlantic climate. Rioja Oriental, the eastern section, is strongly influenced by a Mediterranean climate which makes this area the warmest and driest part of the region. Rioja Alavesa, with a similar climate to Rioja Alta, produces different wines due to the relatively poor condition of the soil. Each sub-zone has its own character, which results in different wines derived from the different compositions and origins of the soils and the climate conditions.
The study of the ecology and biodiversity of the yeast population during alcoholic fermentation is an interesting and important step in the research into, and understanding of, a winegrowing area and should be a step prior to the selection and subsequent employment of the yeasts isolated from that area as starters. The aim of this work was to study the ecology of spontaneous fermentations in 11 wineries from all over the Rioja Designation of Origin during 3–4 consecutive years in order to establish the existence of typical strains belonging to wineries, sub-zones, and regional ecosystems. The wineries under study were distributed throughout the three sub-zones of the Rioja designation of origin.
2. Study on the ecology of S. cerevisiae in the Rioja qualified designation of origin
2.1 Material and methods
2.1.1 Sample collection
Samples were taken from 11 wineries (A–K) located in three different sub-zones of the Rioja designation of origin (Rioja Alta, Rioja Oriental, and Rioja Alavesa) over a period of 3 or 4 consecutive years (Figure 1). None of the wineries studied had ever used a commercial starter yeast. Wineries A and B were new; wineries C, E, and K were about 20 years old, while the others were over 50 years old.
Alcoholic fermentation (AF) was carried out by the destemming and crushing method in stainless steel (wineries A, B, C, D, and F) or wooden vats (winery H). In the other wineries, AF was carried out following the traditional carbonic maceration method (whole grape) in open concrete vats (wineries E, G, I, J, and K). The wines underwent spontaneous AF with the indigenous microbiota in all cases.
In each winery, one fermentation tank was monitored in each year studied. The sampling was carried out 24 hours after vatting, in tumultuous AF (density 1025 g/L) and final AF.
2.1.2 Microbial analyses: strain typing of S. cerevisiae
Samples collected in sterile bottles were taken to the laboratory and processed as follows: serial decimal dilutions were performed, and the samples were seeded onto plates containing a chloramphenicol glucose agar medium (CGA). The plates were incubated at 28°C for 48 h. Plates containing between 30 and 300 colonies were examined, and 10 colonies were randomly isolated from each CGA plate. The colonies were analyzed in order to identify
The different clones isolated in each fermentation were named with the letter of the cellar (A–K), followed by a Roman numeral and year of harvest (1–4).
The clonal variability of each fermentation was determined as a percentage of different
The index of diversity (I.D.) [13] was calculated with the different
where N is the total number of
2.2 Results and discussion
2.2.1 Ecology of the yeast population during alcoholic fermentation in Rioja Oriental sub-zone
In this sub-zone, four wineries were sampled (A–D). In all of them, the vinification took place after destemming and crushing the grapes.
As expected, and concurring with previous studies on the ecology of alcoholic fermentation (FA) [14, 15], non-
The clonal variability in this species was different depending on the winery and the year studied within each winery (Table 1). Thus, while in cellars A and B the total clonal variability was 13.8 and 21.8%, respectively, in the other two (C and D), it was around 35%. Because of the lower variability in the first two wineries, the index of diversity was also smaller.
Winery | Years | Isolates of |
Number of different clones | Clonal variability (%) | Index of diversity | Genotypes detected in previous years | |
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Number | % | ||||||
1 | 29 | 6 | 20.7 | 0.65 | – | – | |
2 | 28 | 7 | 25.0 | 0.77 | 3 | 71.4 | |
3 | 22 | 4 | 18.2 | 0.33 | 2 | 86.3 | |
4 | 30 | 6 | 20.0 | 0.46 | 3 | 83.2 | |
1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
2 | 20 | 5 | 25.0 | 0.76 | – | – | |
3 | 30 | 9 | 30.0 | 0.84 | 2 | 36.6 | |
4 | 28 | 8 | 28.6 | 0.77 | 3 | 63.8 | |
1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
2 | 21 | 11 | 53.4 | 0.94 | – | ||
3 | 22 | 8 | 36.4 | 0.77 | 2 | 13.6 | |
4 | 24 | 11 | 45.8 | 0.87 | 3 | 45.8 | |
1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
2 | 20 | 10 | 50.0 | 0.86 | – | – | |
3 | 22 | 5 | 22.7 | 0,58 | 1 | 9.1 | |
4 | 20 | 8 | 40.0 | 0.82 | 2 | 10.0 | |
A percentage of the isolated microbiota in each harvest had already been identified in previous years (Table 1). This percentage was higher in wineries A and B, while in the others, this proportion was lower. However, the evolution in the population of the strains during fermentation was similar in all the wineries, since in all of them the fermentation in general was carried out by one or two majority yeasts (Table 2) associated with a variable number of minority strains (Table 3). This majority strain(s) represented between 50 and 82% of the total isolated in each vinification (Table 2). The only exception was found in vintage 2 of cellar C, in which there were three major strains with a percentage of 14.3% each. Previous research on the
Years | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
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Winery | Strain | % | Strain | % | Strain | % | Strain | % |
A-I1 | 55.2 |
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42.9 | A-IV3 | 81.8 |
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73.3 | |
|
24.1 | A-II2 | 21.4 | |||||
– | – | B-I2 | 35.0 |
|
33.3 | B-II4 | 21.4 | |
– | – |
|
35.0 | B-VIII3 | 20.0 |
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42.3 | |
– | 53.3 | |||||||
– | – | C-IV2 | 14.3 | C-I3 | 40.9 | C-I4 | 33.3 | |
– | – | C-V2 | 14.3 | C-IV3 | 27.3 | C-IX4 | 16.7 | |
C-X2 | 14.3 | |||||||
– | ||||||||
– | – | D-V2 | 35.0 | D-II3 | 63.6 | D-I4 | 35.0 | |
– | – | D-VI2 | 15.0 | D-III4 | 25.0 | |||
– |
Winery A | Winery B | Winery C | Winery D | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
A-I1 | A-I2 | A-I3 | A-I4 | B-I3 |
|
C-I2 | C-I3 | C-I4 | D-I2 | D-I3 | D-I4 | |
A-II1 | A-II3 | B-II2 | B-II3 | B-II4 | C-II2 | C-II3 | D-II2 | D-II3 | D-II4 | |||
A-III1 | A-III2 |
|
A-III4 | B-III2 | B-III3 | B-III4 | C-III2 | C-III3 | C-III4 | D-III2 | D-III3 | D-III4 |
A-IV1 | A-IV2 | A-IV3 | A-IV4 | B-IV2 | B-IV3 | B-IV4 | C-IV2 | C-IV3 | C-IV4 | D-IV2 |
|
D-IV4 |
A-V1 | A-V2 | B-V2 | B-V3 | B-V4 | C-V2 | C-V3 |
|
D-V2 | D-V3 | D-V4 | ||
A-VI1 | A-VI2 | A-VI4 | B-VI3 | C-VI2 | C-VI3 | C-VI4 |
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D-VI4 | ||||
A-VII2 | B-VII3 | B-VII4 | C-VII2 | C-VII3 | C-VII4 | D-VII2 | D-VII4 | |||||
|
B-VIII4 | C-VIII2 | C-VIII3 | C-VIII4 | D-VIII2 | D-VIII4 | ||||||
B-IX3 | C-IX2 | C-IX4 | D-IX2 | |||||||||
C-X2 | C-X4 | D-X2 | ||||||||||
C-XI2 | C-XI4 |
Nonetheless, only in wineries A and B, there was one common majority strain in the vinifications studied in the 3–4 years (it is highlighted in the same color in Table 2). The fact that the same strains were predominant in successive campaigns in the same winery has already been described in other works [4, 18], for which reason they considered that these yeasts were representative of the winery or the processing area. In contrast, in other studies, common yeasts were not found from one campaign to another or were only found in small proportions [19, 20].
The results obtained could suggest that in wineries A and B, there are yeasts characteristic of the winery that lead the fermentation, in proportions that vary depending on the characteristics of the vintage. However, in the other two wineries, the fermentations were carried out by a succession of strains, among which one or two were majority, but different from one vintage to another.
The main difference between the four wineries studied in the Rioja Oriental sub-zone was their age. While wineries A and B were new (this study began in its third and first harvest, respectively), cellar C had been producing wine for 15 years and D for 50. This means that the latter two had more complex ecosystems, which have been formed over successive harvests, as evidenced by the greater number of clones that participated in the fermentations and the higher diversity index (Table 1).
In a later study, carried out by our research group in cellar B [21], 72 colonies of the species
On the other hand, the comparison of the different restriction profiles obtained in the four wineries during the 3–4 years of study showed that only two yeasts were common among the different wineries (Table 3). Therefore, the results obtained in this study did not show the existence of typical strain/s of this sub-zone. In the wine area of Charentes in Cognac, a strain widely distributed throughout the area had been described, which was considered representative of the wine region. But unlike our data, this strain was the dominant one in all the samples where it appeared [18]. Likewise, in other ecological studies, widely disseminated strains were isolated in an area, and it was thought that they may be typical strains of that area [22].
2.2.2 Ecology of the yeast population during alcoholic fermentation in Rioja Alta sub-zone
In this sub-zone, five wineries were sampled. Vinification was by both the destemming and crushing (F and H) and the carbonic maceration methods (E, G, and I).
As happened in the Rioja Oriental, alcoholic fermentation in the Rioja Alta sub-zone was carried out by yeasts of the
Clonal variability was high in this sub-zone in all the wineries (Table 4). From the 450 isolated colonies of
Winery | Years | Isolates of |
Number of different clones | Clonal variability (%) | Index of diversity | Genotypes detected in previous years | |
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Number | % | ||||||
1 | 30 | 10 | 33.3 | 0.80 | – | – | |
2 | 30 | 14 | 46.7 | 0.93 | 2 | 6.6 | |
3 | 12 | 8 | 66.7 | 0.91 | 3 | 41.6 | |
4 | 20 | 8 | 40.0 | 0.87 | 1 | 5.0 | |
1 | 20 | 5 | 25.0 | 0.57 | – | ||
2 | 23 | 10 | 43.5 | 0.91 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | 19 | 9 | 47.4 | 0.85 | 0 | 0 | |
4 | 20 | 9 | 45.0 | 0.79 | 1 | 5.0 | |
1 | 30 | 13 | 43.3 | 0.93 | – | – | |
2 | 23 | 11 | 47.8 | 0.92 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | 21 | 12 | 57.1 | 0.92 | 5 | 57.3 | |
4 | 30 | 12 | 40.0 | 0.85 | 3 | 40.0 | |
1 | 20 | 9 | 45.0 | 0.88 | – | – | |
2 | 30 | 13 | 43.3 | 0.92 | 3 | 36.6 | |
3 | 20 | 11 | 55.0 | 0.88 | 4 | 50.0 | |
4 | 30 | 13 | 43.3 | 0.80 | 4 | 23.2 | |
1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
2 | 22 | 9 | 40.9 | 0.82 | – | – | |
3 | 30 | 20 | 66.7 | 0.97 | 3 | 13.3 | |
4 | 20 | 11 | 55.0 | 0.76 | 1 | 5.0 | |
The index of diversity was high and similar for all the wineries with a value of 0.95–0.96. These results were due to the high number of different strains that participated in each fermentation, which in the case of wineries F and I was favored by the low presence of common clones in different campaigns within the same winery (Table 4). In wineries E, G, and H, although there were more strains that appeared in different campaigns, they did so in a low percentage, and, therefore, the index remained high.
The population evolution in this sub-zone was similar to Rioja Oriental, since the alcoholic fermentation was carried out by different clones during the fermentation process. In most of the vinifications, 1–3 majority clones were detected, representing at least 43% of the population (Table 5). However, in this sub-zone certain exceptions were found. Thus, in the first year analyzed in winery F, one clone represented 65% of the total and so was therefore dominant and responsible for the fermentation. This could be due to the special characteristics of this campaign (frosts at the end of April, high rainfall and strong winds in spring, hail storms and low temperatures in summer) that negatively influenced the grape ripening and meant that few yeasts were able to adapt and develop to carry out the fermentation. These conditions were more adverse in winery F, due to its geographic situation. It is the winery located at higher altitude and closer to the mountains.
Years | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
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Winery | Strain | % | Strain | % | Strain | % | Strain | % |
E-I1 | 40.0 | E-I2 | 13.3 | E-I3 | 25.0 | E-I4 | 20.0 | |
E-II1 | 20.0 | E-IV2 | 16.7 | E-III3 | 25.0 | E-IV4 | 25.0 | |
E-XI2 | 13.3 | E-V4 | 20.0 | |||||
F-III1 | 65.0 | F-II2 | 13.0 | F-I3 | 25.0 | F-I4 | 45.0 | |
F-III2 | 21.8 | F-V3 | 30.0 | |||||
F-VIII2 | 17.4 | |||||||
G-I1 | 20.0 | G-V2 | 20.0 | G-I3 | 14.3 | G-I4 | 33.3 | |
G-VII2 | 15.0 | G-IV3 | 28.6 | G-III4 | 20.0 | |||
G-VII2 | 15.0 | G-VI4 | 17.4 | |||||
H-II1 | 25 | H-III2 | 20.0 | H-I3 | 30.0 | H-I4 | 43.3 | |
H-III1 | 20 | H-X2 | 13.3 | H-II3 | 20.0 | H-XI4 | 13.3 | |
– | – | I-I2 | 18.2 | I-XV3 | 15.0 | I-I4 | 50.0 | |
I-IV2 | 36.4 | |||||||
– |
On the other hand, in wineries G and I, there were vinification processes in which no major clones were isolated, which could be related to the high number of different clones that participated in the fermentations. What these wineries have in common is that they follow the carbonic maceration method and have been making wine for more than 100 years. Santamaría et al. [15] showed that the number of different S
When comparing the clones found in the five wineries (Table 6), only pattern I, coming from the last year studied in the four wineries, was common in all of them. When comparing the restriction profiles of the four strains, all of them showed the same electrophoretic pattern (Figure 2).
Winery E | Winery F | Winery G | Winery H | Winery I | ||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
E-I1 | E-I2 | E-I3 | E-I4 | F-I1 | F-I2 | F-I3 |
|
G-I1 | G-I2 | G-I3 |
|
H-I1 | H-I2 | H-I3 |
|
I-I2 | I-I3 |
|
E-II1 | E-II2 | E-II3 | E-II4 | F-II1 | F-II2 | F-II3 | F-II4 | G-II1 | G-II2 | G-II3 | G-II4 | H-II1 | H-II2 | H-II3 | H-II4 | I-II2 | I-II3 | II-II4 |
E-III1 | E-III2 | E-III3 | E-III4 | F-III1 | F-III2 | F-III3 | F-III4 | G-III1 | G-III2 | G-III3 | G-III4 | H-III1 | H-III2 | H-III3 | H-III4 | I-III2 | I-III3 | II-III4 |
E-IV1 | E-IV2 | E-IV3 | E-IV4 | F-IV1 | F-IV2 | F-IV3 | F-IV4 | G-IV1 | G-IV2 | G-IV3 | G-IV4 | H-IV1 | H-IV2 | H-IV3 | H-IV4 | I-IV2 | I-IV3 | II-IV4 |
E-V1 | E-V2 | E-V3 | E-V4 | F-V1 | F-V2 | F-V3 | F-V4 | G-V1 | G-V2 | G-V3 | G-V4 | H-V1 | H-V2 | H-V3 | H-V4 | I-V2 | I-V3 | II-V4 |
E-VI1 | E-VI2 | E-VI3 | E-VI4 | F-VI2 | F-VI3 | F-VI4 | G-VI1 | G-VI2 | G-VI3 | G-VI4 | H-VI1 | H-VI2 | H-VI3 | H-VI4 | I-VI2 | I-VI3 | II-VI4 | |
E-VII1 | E-VII2 | E-VII3 | E-VII4 | F-VII98 | F-VII3 | F-VII4 | G-VII1 | G-VII2 | G-VII3 | G-VII4 | H-VII1 | H-VII2 | H-VII3 | H-VII4 | I-VII2 | I-VII3 | II-VII4 | |
E-VIII1 | E-VIII2 | E-VIII3 | E-VIII4 | F-VIII2 | F-VIII3 | F-VIII4 | G-VIII1 | G-VIII2 | G-VIII3 | G-VIII4 | H-VIII1 | H-VIII2 | H-VIII3 | H-VIII4 | I-VIII2 | I-VIII3 | II-VIII4 | |
E-IX1 | E-IX2 | F-IX2 | F-IX3 | F-IX4 | G-IX1 | G-IX2 | G-IX3 | G-IX4 | H-IX1 | H-IX2 | H-IX3 | H-IX4 | I-IX2 | I-IX3 | II-IX4 | |||
E-X1 | E-X2 | F-X2 | G-X1 | G-X2 | G-X3 | G-X4 | H-X2 | H-X3 | H-X4 | I-X3 | II-X4 | |||||||
E-XI2 | G-XI1 | G-XI2 | G-XI3 | G-XI4 | H-XI2 | H-XI3 | H-XI4 | I-XI3 | II-XI4 | |||||||||
E-XII2 | G-XII1 | G-XII3 | G-XII4 | H-XII2 | H-XII4 | I-XII3 | ||||||||||||
E-XIII2 | G-XIII1 | H-XIII2 | H-XIII4 | I-XIII3 | ||||||||||||||
E-XIV2 | I-XIV3 | |||||||||||||||||
I-XV3 | ||||||||||||||||||
I-XVI3 | ||||||||||||||||||
I-XVII3 | ||||||||||||||||||
I-XVIII3 | ||||||||||||||||||
I-XIX3 | ||||||||||||||||||
I-XX3 |
The presence of the same strain in four wineries could be due to the fact that the villages where wineries G, H, and I are located are geographically very close to each other (Figure 1). In cellar F, a little further away, a part of the grapes came from the same area as the other three. In this fourth year of study, strong winds were reported by grape growers in September and October. These winds could be responsible for transporting yeasts from one area to another, which would explain the appearance of the same strain in the four wineries. This yeast could come from the grapes, since in none of the three previous vintages had this strain been isolated in any of the cellars. This strain dominated the beginning of the fermentations and was later replaced by other indigenous strains, since in no case was it isolated at the end of the fermentation processes. These results would concur with those of Schütz and Gafner [19], who consider that the population of yeasts can be considered dependent on the harvest and the vineyard, and also with Le Jeune et al. [25], who indicated that the populations involved in spontaneous alcoholic fermentation result from a balance between the
The data obtained would show the existence of extensive microbiota in each winery, which, together with the microflora that accompanies the grapes, will develop according to the characteristics of the harvest. The fermentations would be the result of the sequence of different yeasts, and despite having found a widely spread yeast in the sub-zone 1 year, it did not appear in any other winery in the other three campaigns studied. So, we do not consider that in Rioja Alta, there are representative strains from either the wineries or the sub-zone.
2.2.3 Ecology of the yeast population during alcoholic fermentation in the Rioja Alavesa sub-zone
In this sub-zone, two wineries (J and K) were sampled, where wines were produced by the carbonic maceration method. As in the other two sub-zones, the non-
The level of clonal variability was very high in both cellars, especially in winery K, where it reached 60% (Table 7). It is noteworthy that the highest percentage of clonal variability in both wineries was obtained in the third year, as in the vinifications in the Rioja Alta, which confirms the importance of the characteristics of the harvest in the microbiota that drives the fermentations.
Winery | Years | Isolates of |
Number of different clones | Clonal variability (%) | Index of diversity | Genotypes detected in previous years | |
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Number | % | ||||||
1 | 29 | 15 | 51.7 | 0.93 | – | – | |
2 | 30 | 13 | 43.3 | 0.92 | 3 | 29.9 | |
3 | 20 | 14 | 70.0 | 0.94 | 5 | 50.0 | |
1 | 20 | 12 | 60.0 | 0.95 | – | – | |
2 | 30 | 14 | 46.7 | 0.92 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | 20 | 19 | 95.0 | 0.99 | 3 | 15.0 | |
As in the rest of the sub-zones, the high number of different clones identified in each fermentation and the few common yeasts between campaigns (Table 7) provided high indexes of diversity, which reached values of 0.95 and 0.98 for cellars J and K, respectively. These indices were of the same order as those found in Rioja Alta and higher than those of Rioja Oriental. Likewise, the number of yeasts that participated in more than one campaign was small in the two wineries, with the exception of the third year of study in winery J. Therefore, the microbiota responsible for the fermentation was different in each harvest.
Regarding the population dynamics of the fermentation, it was observed that in the two wineries, the fermentations were carried out by different
Years | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
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Winery | Strain | % | Strain | % | Strain | % |
J-IV1 | 20.7 | J-III2 | 13.3 | J-III3 | 25 | |
J-I1 | 13.8 | J-IV2 | 13.3 | |||
J-V2 | 13.3 | |||||
J-VI2 | 16.6 | |||||
K-VI1 | 15.5 | K-III2 | 16.7 | K-II3 | 6.7 | |
K-XI1 | 15.0 | K-IV2 | 16.7 | |||
K-VI2 | 13.3 | |||||
The comparison of the different strains found in the two cellars during the 3 years of study (Table 9) showed the existence of a single common clone, corresponding to the fermentations of the second year. Therefore, the data obtained would show the existence of extensive microbiota in each winery. The fermentations would be the result of the sequence of different populations of yeasts, as there are no representative strains of the sub-zone.
Winery J | Winery K | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
J-I1 | J-I3 | K-I1 | K-I2 | K-I3 | |
J-II1 | J-II2 | J-II3 | K-II1 | K-III3 | |
J-III1 | J-III2 | J-VI3 | K-III1 | K-III2 | K-IV3 |
J-IV1 | J-IV2 | J-VII3 | K-IV1 | K-IV2 | K-V3 |
J-V1 | J-VI2 | J-IX3 | K-V1 | K-V2 | K-VI3 |
J-VI1 | J-VII2 | J-X3 | K-VI1 | K-VI2 | K-VIII3 |
J-VII1 | J-VIII2 | J-XII3 | K-VII1 | K-VII2 | K-IX3 |
J-VIII1 | J-IX2 | J-XIII3 | K-VIII1 | K-VIII2 | K-X3 |
J-IX1 | J-X2 | J-XIV3 | K-IX1 | K-IX2 | K-XI3 |
J-X1 | J-XIII2 | K-X1 | K-X2 | K-XII3 | |
J-XI1 | K-XI1 | K-XI2 | K-XIII3 | ||
J-XII1 | K-XII1 | K-XII2 | K-XV3 | ||
J-XIII1 | K-XIII2 | K-XVI3 | |||
J-XIV1 | K-XIV2 | K-XVII3 | |||
J-XV1 | K-XVIII3 | ||||
K-XIX3 |
3. Conclusions
As in other ecological studies of wine fermentations, spontaneous alcoholic fermentations in the Rioja qualified designation of origin are mainly conducted by yeasts of the
Different agronomic and technological factors can influence in the diversity of the yeasts present in each vinification, such as the age of the winery, the winemaking system employed, and the climate conditions that prevailed during the ripening period of the grapes. The vinifications carried out in newly constructed wineries presented a lower clonal diversity than those which took place in older wineries. The clonal diversity was higher in vinifications conducted by carbonic maceration than in those carried out after crushing and destemming grapes. Unfavorable climatology during the vegetative period decreased the number of strains that participated in the fermentation.
There were very few common strains that participated in the fermentations carried out in successive years within the same winery, and hardly any common strains were detected in different wineries of the same sub-zone during the 4 years studied. All this allows us to affirm that there are no representative “typical” strains of the wineries, nor of the sub-zones and, therefore, of the Rioja designation of origin.
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