A wine from litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn. var. Shahi) fruits having high nutritional value was prepared by fermentation using wine yeast
(Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. bayanus). The wine was light yellow in colour, acidic in test [titratable acidity (0.59 g tartaric acid/100
ml)], rose-flavoured and with tannin (0.72 mg/100 ml) and low ethanol (6.5%) concentration. The sensory evaluation rated the litchi wine
quite acceptable as an alcoholic beverage Principal component analysis (PCA) reduced the eight original analyses (proximate) variables to
two independent components (factors, PC1 and PC2), which accounted for 100% of the variation of litchi wine. Similarly, PCA analysis
reduced the five original sensory attributes to three independent components (PC1, PC2 and PC3) that accounted for 79.3 % of the
variation of litchi wine.