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The use of unripe frozen musts for modulating wine characteristics throughout acidity correction – effects on volatile and amino acid composition

Abstract

As environmental issues come more to the fore, vineyards residues are being looked at as solutions rather than problems. Aiming to develop a sustainable methodology for musts acidity correction in the process of winemaking, much needed in warm regions, the present study was performed according to Circular Economy values. Four red wines from Aragonez grapes and six white wines from Antão Vaz grapes were produced using two different strategies for musts acidity correction: i) the addition of a mixture of organic acids (Mix) commonly used in winemaking; ii) the addition of previously produced unripe grape musts (UM) from the same grape varieties. Also, a testimonial (T) sample was produced in both wine varieties with no acidity correction. Oenological parameters, amino acid (AA) content and volatile composition of all wines produced were determined and evaluated.

The AAs composition was quantified by HPLC-DAD, after a derivatization step to obtain the aminoenone derivatives [1,2]. The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were determined by GC/MS, after an HS-SPME extraction [3]. One-way analysis of variance with Fisher’s least significant difference (LSD) test at p<0.05 and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) were performed with SPSS24.0.

The Aragonez wines showed significant differences between the wines with acidity correction by the unripe musts addition (UM-A and UM-B), showing the higher amounts of AAs (640.08 mg/L and 630.33 mg/L, respectively), and the wines from Mix and T, with lowest amounts of AAs (546.24 mg/L and 562.51 mg/L, respectively). Also, for the volatile compounds significant differences were found for the UM-B wine, with the highest amount of VOCs, and T wine, with the lowest amount of VOCs. As for the Antão Vaz wines, significant differences were obtained between all wines, regarding AA content, with T wine showing the higher amounts of AA (4395.13 mg/L), and Mix wine the lowest content. (2948.41 mg/L). On the volatile results no significant differences were obtained among them.

Principal component analysis (PCA) obtained with combined data of AAs and volatile compounds, after normalization, for all wine samples, shows the separation obtained for the Aragonez red wines and Antão Vaz white wines according to the type of acidification under study… Results obtained indicate that the use of unripe grape musts can be a strategy to increase musts acidity, without a negative impact on wine characteristics.

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Publication date: September 10, 2021

Issue: Macrowine 2021

Type: Article

Authors

Catarina Pereira

MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development. Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, Ap. 94, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal.,Davide, MENDES – LAQV-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal. Nuno, MARTINS – MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra. Ap. 94, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal. Raquel, GARCIA – MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Departamento de Fitotecnia, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra. Ap. 94, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal. Marco, GOMES DA SILVA, LAQV-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal. Maria João, CABRITA – MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Departamento de Fitotecnia, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra. Ap. 94, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal.

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Keywords

acidity correction; unripe grape musts; circular economy; aragonez grapes; antão vaz grapes; amino acids; volatile compounds

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