“…It must be underlined that the identification of selected native Inzolia isolates revealed that, although the main percentage of high SO 2 -tolerant yeasts was identified as S. cerevisiae, some nonSaccharomyces species exhibited this characteristic. These results confirm the data of several quantitative ecological studies, which reported that, although the population size of non-Saccharomyces species is reduced throughout the wine fermentations, their growth was not completely suppressed, either in spontaneous or in inoculated fermentations (Hierro et al 2007;Andorrà et al 2008). In our research, besides species frequently reported at the final step of fermentation, as a consequence of high ethanol and sulphur dioxide tolerances, such as Z. bailii, P. anomala, S'codes ludwigii, K. thermotolerans, we found also an isolate of H. uvarum, a species widely considered low-tolerant to these compounds.…”