Also glycolysis, from Greek glykys, sweet taste and lysis, action of unleashing, dissolution : sugar rupture. It is a biochemical process that living cells perform in their cytoplasm (mitochondria) to feed by breaking down glucose molecules that result in other molecules of ethanol, CO2 and ATP (adenosine triphosphate). The latter is what they are looking for to feed themselves, the rest are undone. However in the fermentation of the wine that the yeasts ( saccharomyces serevisiae ) what we are interested in is the disposal of ethanol.
