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Detection of Port Wine Imitations by Discriminant Analysis Using Free Amino Acids Profiles

P. Herbert, P. Barros, A. Alves
Am J Enol Vitic.  2000  51: 262-268  ; DOI: 10.5344/ajev.2000.51.3.262
P. Herbert
Departamento de Engenharia Química, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua dos Bragas, 4099 Porto Codex, Portugal
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The free amino acid content in wines is closely related to quality, authenticity, and the technology of winemaking. Some attempts have been made in the past to find an unequivocal relationship between free amino acids and the authenticity of wines, but the complexity and diversity of the factors involved has made this matter a controversial one. This study investigates the possibility of using the analysis of 18 free amino acid levels to detect imitations of Port Wine by linear discriminant analysis. The 105 samples analyzed were divided into two data sets: the training set, used to build the model (55 Port Wines and 13 Port Imitations) and the test set of unknown samples (37 wines). Fifty-four of the 55 Port Wines and 12 from 13 Port Imitations were correctly classified in the training set; the discriminant function derived enabled the correct classification of 97% of the wines from the test set. Considerable discriminating power was obtained from only five variables — alanine, arginine, tyrosine, valine, and leucine (error 2.3% for the test set)— after data reduction by step-wise discriminant analysis. It is concluded that free amino acid content may be a good indicator in discriminating between Port Wine and Port Imitations.

  • Port Wine
  • amino acid profiles
  • Received January 1999.
  • Copyright 2000 by the American Society for Enology and Viticulture

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P. Herbert, P. Barros, A. Alves
Am J Enol Vitic.  2000  51: 262-268  ; DOI: 10.5344/ajev.2000.51.3.262
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