RT journal article T1 Volatile Sulphur Compounds in Wine Distillates by Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry A1 Silvosa, Marta A1 García Moreno, María de Valme A1 Castro Mejías, Remedios A2 Química Analítica K1 volatile sulphur compounds K1 wine distillates K1 sulphur dioxide K1 Brandy de Jerez K1 SBSE AB A Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (SBSEGC-MS) method has been optimized and validated for the determination of eight volatilesulphur compounds in wine distillates: diethyl sulphide (DES), dimethyl disulphide(DMDS), diethyl disulphide (DEDS), 2-thiophenecarboxaldehyde (TC), dibutyl sulphide(DBS), dipropyl disulphide (DPDS), dipropyl sulphide (DPS), and dimethyl trisulphide(DMTS). After optimization by 24factorial design, the SBSE-GC-MS extraction conditionswere as follows: a polydimethylsiloxane twister (10 mm × 0.5 mm), 35 ◦C as the extractiontemperature, 10 mL as the sample volume, 7% (v/v) as the alcoholic grade, 47 min as theextraction time, 10% (w/v) of NaCl, and 1% (w/v) of EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraaceticacid). Under optimal conditions, adequate analytical figures of merit were obtained foreight of the ten compounds initially considered, with low quantification and detectionlimits and relative standard deviations for inter-twister and inter-day repeatability valuesranging from 7.5 to 21.8% and from 7.2 to 27.5%, respectively. The methodology wasapplied to 34 wine distillates (continuous column distillation and distillation in pot still)elaborated for the production of Brandy de Jerez: 15 aged distillates aged for differentperiods of time in American oak wood and 19 non-aged distillates. The most significantvolatile sulphur compounds were DBS, DMDS, and DPS. The Cluster Analysis (CA) on thevolatile sulphur compounds grouped the samples according to the use of sulphur dioxide.In general, lower amounts of volatile sulphur compounds were found in the aged samples,although the high standard deviations obtained highlight that their contents depend onmultiple factors related to the elaboration process. PB MDPI SN 2076-3417 YR 2025 FD 2025-03-27 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/37950 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/37950 LA eng DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 09-nov-2026