“…Small concentrations of diacetyl give pleasant, delicate notes of nuts, caramel, and a pleasing buttery taste. However, in higher concentrations (above 1 mg/L), it is responsible for less pleasant intensely buttery tones [11,12,15,21,23,25,28,35]. The metabolites are mainly produced by bacteria involved in spontaneous MLF-namely Pediococcus, Lactobacillus, and Leuconostoc.…”