The right bacteria for your wine depends heavily on your wine conditions. The most important parameters are:
Extremes in one or more of these properties can have a compounding inhibitory effect on the ability of malolactic bacteria to consume malic acid. For example, if a wine has low pH and high SO2, that will be more antagonistic to the bacteria than low pH alone.
Beyond wine conditions, bacteria should be selected based on the intended sensory impact! Just like yeast, malolactic bacteria display a broad range of metabolic processes that impact a wine’s sensory profile and can be used to drive wine style. Wine flavors of fruity, spicy, toasty, nutty and buttery can be enhanced or diminished depending on the ML strain.
Scott Labs has several resources on our website to help you choose the best bacteria for your wine!
Bacteria Product Pages
Check out our ML bacteria product pages to review the bacteria's wine condition tolerances (pH, etc.) and their sensory impact to determine what strain is right for your wine.
Choosing Guide
Our ML Bacteria and Nutrient Choosing Guide helps you compare and select Scott Labs malolactic bacteria and nutrients. This guide contains a downloadable pdf choosing chart with information on each bacteria strain and nutrient offered.
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Scott Laboratories Inc. (USA) and Scott Laboratories Ltd. (Canada) are privately held companies specializing in value-added products and services for the North American wine, craft brewing, and distilled spirits industries.
Our predecessor firm (the Berkeley Yeast Laboratory) was founded in the weeks prior to the end of Prohibition in 1933. Our vision is to provide the best customer service to the specialty beverage community. Our mission is to advance the long-term success of the specialty beverage community by providing best-in-class products and services. We believe in education, honesty, and doing the right thing.
Our first products were lab services and yeast. In the years that followed the needs of our industry customers led us first to cellar supplies, then to packaging and finally into processing and bottling equipment. It has been a 80+ year evolution driven by the concept of adding value.
Our current product portfolios include some of the most famous names in the wine, craft brewing, and spirits industries. In some cases, we have our own proprietary products (such as ScottPlus Dry-Steam Natural Cork and ScottCart filters) while in other cases we work with the industry's leading vendors and suppliers. You can check out virtually all of our offerings on our website at www.scottlab.com.
As of 2020, our companies have 90 employees. Our headquarters are in Petaluma, California and Pickering, Ontario. In addition, Scott Laboratories USA has locations in Healdsburg (Sonoma County) and Paso Robles.
Title | Name | Phone | Extension | |
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Communications Manager | Kelly Browning | kellyb@scottlab.com | (707) 765-6666 | |
Design & Events Manager | Carly Lourenzo | carlys@scottlab.com | (707) 765-6666 | |
Dir. of Marketing & Partnerships | Domingo Rodriguez | domingor@scottlab.com | (707) 765-6666 |
Locations | Address | State | Country | Zip Code |
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Scott Laboratories | 1480 Cader Ln., Petaluma | CA | United States of America | 94954 |