Candida zemplinina Sipiczki 2003

A non-Saccharomyces fermentative wine yeast identified in botrytised wines in the Tokaj wine-growing region (Hungary-Slovakia). Later it was found in many other wine-growing regions in the world, usually in wines with high sugar contents. It has no sexual phase and is phylogenetically related to Starmerella.

Candida zemplinina is a yeast species that is osmotolerant, psychrotolerant and ferments sweet botrytized wines. Its type strain is 10-372T (=CBS 9494T =NCAIM Y016667T).