ODORIFEROUS COMPOUNDS IN GRAPE BERRY
AND WINE – VARIETAL AROMAS
Given the importance of the aroma on the quality of the
wine it has been object of numerous studies and the chemical
basis and diversity of grape and wine odoriferous compounds
has been reviewed in detail (Bayonove et al. 1998;
Oliveira 2000; Ribéreau-Gayon et al. 2000; Mateo and Jiménez
2000; Blouin and Cruège 2003; Swiegers et al. 2005).
Wine aromas are made up of several hundreds of volatile
compounds, at concentrations ranging from several mg/l to
a few ng/l, or even less. The complexity of wine aromas,
which makes them particularly difficult to study, is due to