Abstract
With the development of organic wines and ciders, there is a real tendency to carry out spontaneousfermentations, which involve the development of indigenous yeasts and bacteria. Indeed, thesemicroorganisms are sometimes considered as components of the terroir that participate in the typicity ofwines and ciders. However, no scientific knowledge allows us to assert such a specificity, while the lackof control of these microorganisms can lead to difficulties of fermentation, aromatic deviations oralterations. The project CASDAR Levains Bio relied on a network of laboratories, technical institutes andassociations of organic producers to provide the necessary knowledge and practical solutions forcarrying out indigenous fermentations with a good level of control. It has been shown that there is awide diversity of strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the lactic acid bacteriumOenococcus oeni, that strains are genetically adapted to certain products, but not to regions orproduction sites. Protocols have been developed to allow for the selection of strains from farms or forthe production of "pieds de cuve". Some of the solutions have been successfully transferred toproducers.