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  "what": "Letting whatever came in on the fruit and lives in the cellar start the ferment, instead of pitching a selected strain from a packet.",
  "how": "The early work is done by non-Saccharomyces species that die off as alcohol rises; Saccharomyces cerevisiae finishes. The risk is a stuck ferment or a population you did not want; the argument for it is the character those first days leave behind."
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   "note": "use when a node belongs everywhere pinot noir is grown"
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   "title": "Yeast in winemaking",
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