【Objective】For the development of wine Lactobacillus plantarum as potential commercial malolactic fermentation(MLF) starter cultures, the process of MLF in Cabernet Sauvignon wine by L. plantarum was investigated in this study, to evaluate the MLF potential of L. plantarum.【Method】This research used L. plantarum CS-1, XJ-14, XJ-25 and XJA-2(isolated from Xinjiang wine in authors' lab with high glycosidase activity) as the research objects, and MLF in Cabernet Sauvignon wine, respectively, wine without MLF w...