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IVES 9 IVES Conference Series 9 MOUSY OFF-FLAVOURS IN WINES: UNVEILING THE MICROORGANISMS BEHIND IT

MOUSY OFF-FLAVOURS IN WINES: UNVEILING THE MICROORGANISMS BEHIND IT

Abstract

Taints and off-flavours are one of the major concerns in the wine industry and even if the issues provoked by them are harmless, they can still have a negative impact on the quality or on the visual perception of the consumer. Nowadays, the frequency of occurrence of mousy off-flavours in wines has increased.
The reasons behind this could be the significant decrease in sulphur dioxide addition during processing, the increase in pH or even the trend for spontaneous fermentation in wine. This off-flavour is associated with Brettanomyces bruxellensis or some lactic acid bacteria metabolisms. Three N-heterocyclic compounds (APY, ETHP, ATHP) have been described as involved in mousiness perception. Thus far, no study addressed the variability in that N-heterocycles production according to microorganism strains from different species. Twenty-five wines presenting mousy off-flavour were analysed. In total, 252 bacte-ria with 90.5 % of Oenococcus oeni and 101 yeast strains with 53.5 % of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were isolated and identified. Even if B. bruxellensis have been isolated during this study, it has been shown that in most mousy wines, it wes not found.Their capacity to produce mousy compounds was investigated using Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (SBSE-GC-MS) in a standardised N-heterocycle assay medium (NHAM). While four and three species of yeast and bacteria, respectively, were isolated from mousy wines, only three species of microorganisms were associated with N-heterocycles production: B. bruxellensis, Lentilactobacillus hilgardii and Oenococcus oeni. The screening was then extended to collection strains for these three species to improve their genetic representativity. Our results show that the levels and the ratios of the three N-heterocycles present huge variations according to the species but all the tested strains were able to produce mousiness in the NHAM.

 

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Publication date: February 9, 2024

Issue: OENO Macrowine 2023

Type: Poster

Authors

Pierre Moulis1,2, Cécile Miot-Sertier1, Laure Cordazzo1, Olivier Claisse1, Celine Franc1, Laurent Riquier1, Beata Beisert2, Stephanie Marchand1, Gilles de Revel1, Doris Rauhut2 and Patricia Ballestra1

1. UMR 1366 OENOLOGIE, Univ. Bordeaux, INRAE, Bordeaux INP, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin, Villenave d’Ornon, France
2. Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Geisenheim, Germany

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Keywords

Mousy off-flavor, Brettanomyces bruxellensis, Lactic acid bacteria, Wine

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IVES Conference Series | oeno macrowine 2023 | oeno-macrowine

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