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Although humankind has been involved in winemaking since the very beginning of civilization, it was not until the second half of the last century that Pasteur (1857) demonstrated the microbial origin of spontaneous fermentations. Years later, Hansen (1903) established the taxonomic basis for a rational approach to the study of yeasts associated with grapes and to those actually involved in the fermentation process. By the middle of the present century studies in microbial ecology have shown that the vinification process involves a sequential proliferation of different types of yeast and bacteria coming either from the vineyard itself or from the cellar (Mrak and McClung, 1940; Castelli, 1954 and Galzy, 1958)
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Villa, T.G., Longo, E. (1996). Microbiology of Grape Surfaces and its Importance for Wine Quality. In: Morris, C.E., Nicot, P.C., Nguyen-The, C. (eds) Aerial Plant Surface Microbiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-34164-4_13
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