Yeast
Lalvin W15 — Lalvin
Lalvin
Representative The maker publishes no figures for this product, so these are class-typical values instead.
- Lab
- Lalvin
- Product code
- W15
- Form
- dry
- Type
- ale
- Attenuation
- 95–100 %
- Temperature
- 10–27 °C
- Flocculation
- medium
- Alcohol tolerance
- 16 %
- STA1
- not published — treat as unknown
- Dosage
- 20–40 g/hL
Description
A Müller-Thurgau isolate from Wädenswil that ferments slowly and cool, 10–27 °C, and generates very little heat of its own, which keeps sulfur compounds down. High glycerol and succinic acid give the wine structure, and its osmotolerance holds up in late-harvest and ice-wine sugar.