title: The Influence of the Variety, Vineyard, and Vintage on the Romanian White Wines Quality.
abstract: The wine is one of the most consumed drinks over the world, being subjected to falsification or adulteration regarding the variety, vintage, and geographical region. In this study, the influence of different characteristics of wines (type, production year, and origin) on the total phenolic content, total flavonoids content, antioxidant activity, total sugars content, pH, and18O/16O isotopic ratio was investigated. The differentiation of selected wines on the basis of tested parameters was investigated using chemometric techniques, such as analysis of variance, cluster analysis, and principal component analysis. The experimental results are in agreement with other outcomes and allow concluding that variety and vineyard have the major influence on the studied parameters, but, also, statistical interaction effect between year and vineyard and year and variety is observed in some cases. The obtained results have demonstrated that these parameters together with chemometric techniques show a significant potential to be used for discrimination of white wines.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, 11 Arany Janos, 400028 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Anamaria
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hosu
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, 67-103 Donat, 400293 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Veronica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Floare-Avram
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, 67-103 Donat, 400293 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Dana Alina
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-8101-9843
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Magdas
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, 67-103 Donat, 400293 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Ioana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Feher
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, 11 Arany Janos, 400028 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Mihai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Inceu
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, 11 Arany Janos, 400028 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-5960-9118
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cimpoiu