Effects from the Freezing of Either Whole or Crushed Grapes on the Volatile Compounds Contents in Muscat Wines

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2022-06Department
Química AnalíticaSource
Foods, Vol. 11, Núm. 12Abstract
The transfer of aromatic compounds from the grape skins to the musts has been studied using a process involving freezing whole bunches or crushed grapes for winemaking the Muscat of Alexandria variety (white wine). Subsequently, a prefermentative maceration has been applied to some of the samples. The aromatic profiles of the final wines have been determined using gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrophotometry (GC-MS). The results revealed that, in the trials in which whole grapes were frozen, the final wines had a higher aromatic concentration compared to that of wines obtained by either freezing crushed grapes or obtained with traditional winemaking techniques. Thus, the wines produced from frozen whole grapes were found to exhibit different characteristics from the rest of the wines. The compounds affected by the freezing either of the whole bunches or the crushed grapes were terpenes, acids, and esters. Lower differences were found for wines produced applying prefermentative maceration after the freezing process.
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aroma; cryoextraction; prefermentative maceration; Muscat grapesCollections
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