Publications

Authors:

Carlin, Silvia; Piergiovanni, Maurizio; Pittari, Elisabetta; Tiziana Lisanti, Maria; Moio, Luigi; Piombino, Paola; Marangon, Matteo; Curioni, Andrea; Rolle, Luca; Río Segade, Susana; Versari, Andrea; Ricci, Arianna; Parpinello, Giuseppina Paola; Luzzini, Giovanni; Ugliano, Maurizio; Perenzoni, Daniele; Vrhovsek, Urska; Mattivi, Fulvio

Title:

The contribution of varietal thiols in the diverse aroma of Italian monovarietal white wines

Year:

2022

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Referee:

No

Name of journal:

Food Research International

ISSN of journal:

0963-9969

N° Volume:

157

Page numbers:

1-11

Keyword:

3-Sulfanylhexan-1-ol; 3-Sulfanylhexyl acetate; 4-Methyl-4-sulfanylpentan-2-one; Ebselen; Ethyl 3-sulfanylpropionate; LC-MS/MS; Lugana; Müller-Thurgau; Sensory analysis; Verdicchio; Volatile thiols; White wine

Short description of contents:

Thanks to their low odor detection thresholds, free varietal thiols (VTs) play a key role in the primary aroma of wines, to which they confer an intense scent reminiscent of box tree, grapefruit, citrus fruits, passionfruit and cat urine odor. Excluding wines from a few VT-rich grapevine cultivars, VTs appear to be present in most cultivars at trace levels, although a comprehensive dataset is still missing. The low concentration of VTs combined with their high reactivity and matrix complexity make their determination in wines a challenging task. In this research an optimized liquid chromatography - tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was validated and used for the quantification of 4-methyl-4-sulfanylpentan-2-one (4-MSP), 3-sulfanylhexan-1-ol (3-SH), 3-sulfanylhexyl acetate (3-SHA) and ethyl 3-sulfanylpropionate (E3SP) in 246 samples (vintage 2019) representative of 18 monovarietal Italian white wines. VTs were detected in all cultivars even though higher values of 3-SH were found in Lugana, Muller-Thurgau and Verdicchio cultivars. Muller-Thurgau wines showed the highest level of 4MSP, that was mainly correlated to the odor descriptors of passionfruit and box tree/cat urine. The VTs composition of Muller-Thurgau was confirmed on a second set of 50 wines from different vintages. From a sensory perspective, the samples of Muller-Thurgau showed the best positive correlations between chemical variables and the odor descriptors thiol note, passion fruit and box tree/cat urine. These notes are significantly related to 4-MSP, suggesting that it could play a relevant olfactory role for the aroma of Muller-Thurgau wines. Sorting analysis allowed to group these wines according to their thiolic characteristics. The chemical variables and the odor descriptors attributable to the thiol notes are important for Muller-Thurgau and Lugana wines, while the contribution of thiol notes was sensorially negligible for the other wines.

Product ID:

139522

Handle IRIS:

11562/1126077

Last Modified:

January 30, 2025

Bibliographic citation:

Carlin, Silvia; Piergiovanni, Maurizio; Pittari, Elisabetta; Tiziana Lisanti, Maria; Moio, Luigi; Piombino, Paola; Marangon, Matteo; Curioni, Andrea; Rolle, Luca; Río Segade, Susana; Versari, Andrea; Ricci, Arianna; Parpinello, Giuseppina Paola; Luzzini, Giovanni; Ugliano, Maurizio; Perenzoni, Daniele; Vrhovsek, Urska; Mattivi, Fulvio, The contribution of varietal thiols in the diverse aroma of Italian monovarietal white wines «Food Research International» , vol. 157 , 2022 , pp. 1-11

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