Consilience Wines Consilience Wines Consilience Wines is a family-owned winery located in Los Olivos California and was established in 1994. Consilience Wines is based in Los Olivos in the Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County. The company specializes in Rhône, Syrah, Grenache, Roussanne, Viognier, Mourvèdre, Grenache Blanc and Petite Sirah. Other wines produced comprise Cabernet Sauvignon and the California grape, Zinfandel. The winery houses a second label, Tre Anelli, specializing in Italian and Spanish varieties, including Sangiovese, Tempranillo and Verdelho. Consilience Wines was founded in 1994, when Brett Escalera and Tom Daughters joined together to create wines from Santa Barbara-county grapes in
Petite mutation Petite mutation petite (ρ–) is a mutant first discovered in the yeast "Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Due to the defect in the respiratory chain, 'petite' yeast are unable to grow on media containing only non-fermentable carbon sources (such as glycerol or ethanol) and form small colonies when grown in the presence of fermentable carbon sources (such as glucose). The petite phenotype can be caused by the absence of, or mutations in, mitochondrial DNA (termed "cytoplasmic Petites"), or by mutations in nuclear-encoded genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation. A neutral petite produces all wild type progeny when crossed with wild type. petite mutations can