Potential exploitation of lysozyme in the winemaking of Sicilian wines from ???organic grapes"

2009

Lysozyme is a natural enzyme with muramidase activity which can work against a range of lactic acid bacteria (LAB), including Oenococcus, Pediococcus and Lactobacillus spp., that can affect wine stability (Cunningham et al., 1991). For such reason, over the last decade, there has been a growing interest in lysozyme as a supplement to sulphur dioxide for bacterial inhibition (Sonni et al., 2009). Since, lysozyme applications proved to be enough specific to require technical knowledge and expertise to be efficient, an experimental winemaking was performed to evaluate the efficiency of this enzyme application to produce a Sicilian wine from “organic grapes”. Specifically, two experimental cond…