Latest news for winemakers

Northern hemisphere

FrootZen, Prelude and CiNe successes in 2011:

Season 2011 ends up with excellent feedback from a larger and larger basis of customers in Europe and USA.

'Viniflora® Prelude': Chr. Hansen Torulaspora delbruecki strain of yeast  meant to protect wines and improve mouth feel and complexity into red, rosé and white wines...  

The stuning 'Viniflora® FrootZen', a direct inoculation Pichia kluyveri yeast to enhance fruit flavours in wines... in Alsace, Bordeaux or California the improvement brought by FrootZen to the wines are absolutely fantastic making FrootZen the perfect 'Natural innovation'. 

'Viniflora® CiNe' to manage malolactic fermentation without producing typical dairy like flavours and hence keeping the fruit character.

We recommend you pre-book these products for next year right away!


To get more information about Viniflora® products you can visit the web site or contact our closest representatives using the map on your right.

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Southern hemisphere

It is time to prepare the season and order your Viniflora® specialty yeasts and bacteria products!

Chr. Hansen offers you several new, natural ways to manage fermentations!

With our non-Saccharomyces yeasts range of product you can:

develop elegant and complex Merlot or Pinot Noir using Vinilflora® Prelude, the first and leading strain of Torulaspora delbruecki for sequential inoculation;

produce fruiter whites and rosés wines with our wine Pichia kluyveri yeast named Viniflora® Frootzen... 

Then manage malolactic fermentation with our premium high quality collection of strains made for direct inoculation... try Viniflora® CH16 for high pH, high ethanol red wines or Viniflora® CiNe, used now by hundreds of winemakers seeking for well balanced, easy to drink reds... when fruitiness and freshness is the main target, CiNe is the obvious choice for MLF management: no dairy-like flavours... all the freshness kept in the bottle.


To get more information about these products, visit our web site or contact our closest representative using the map on your right.

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