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Multispectral fluorescence sensitivity to acidic and polyphenolic changes in Chardonnay wines – The case study of malolactic fermentation

Abstract

In this study, stationary and time-resolved fluorescence signatures were statistically and chemometrically analyzed among three typologies of Chardonnay wines with the objectives to evaluate their sensitivity to acidic and polyphenolic changes. For that purpose, a dataset was built using Excitation Emission Matrices of fluorescence (N=103) decomposed by a Parallel Factor Analysis (PARAFAC) and fluorescence decays (N=22), mathematically fitted, using the conventional exponential modeling and the phasor plot representation. Wine PARAFAC component C4 coupled with its phasor plot g and s values enable the description of malolactic fermentation (MLF) occurrence in Chardonnay wines.  The combination of multispectral fluorescence parameters opens a novel routinely implementable methodology to diagnose fermentative processes.

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Publication date: June 27, 2022

Issue: WAC 2022

Type: Article

Authors

Maxime, Pacheco, Ambroise, Marin, Jean-Marie, Perrier-Cornet, Christian, Coelho

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Maxime, Pacheco – UMR PAM

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Keywords

Malolactic fermantation – Traceability – PARAFAC components – Fluorescence lifetime – Phasor plot

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IVES Conference Series | WAC 2022

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