New method for evaluating astringency in red wine |
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Authors: | Llaudy María C Canals Roser Canals Joan-Miquel Rozés Nicolas Arola Lluís Zamora Fernando |
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Affiliation: | Departament de Bioquímica i Biotecnologia, Facultat d'Enologia de Tarragona, (CeRTA), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, C/Ramón y Cajal 70, 43005 Tarragona, Spain. |
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Abstract: | Astringency is an important sensory attribute of red wine. It is usually estimated by tasting and is subject to a certain subjectivity. It can also be estimated by using the gelatin index. This procedure is not very reproducible because there are many gelatins on the market with a heterogeneous composition. Furthermore, the gelatin index determines procyanidin concentration by acid hydrolysis that gives only an approximate result. This paper proposes a new and reproducible method that determines astringency by using ovalbumin as the precipitation agent and tannic acid solutions as standards. Statistical analysis of the results indicates that this method is more reproducible (RSD = 5%) than the gelatin index (RSD = 12%) and correlates better with sensorial analysis. |
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