Forty-four wine S. cerevisiae strains, belonging to the strain collec-tion of the Unit of Microbiology of the Department AGRARIA of Reggio Calabria and isolated from Calabrian grapes and musts during different years, were identi fied as
S. cerevisiae by RFLP of the internal transcribed pacers (ITS1 and ITS2) and the 5.8S by using Hae III, Cfo I, and Hinf Ire-
striction enzymes (Promega) according to Esteve-Zarzoso et al. (1999) (data not shown).