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Felipe San-Juan1, Juan Cacho, Vicente Ferreira
1Laboratory for Flavor Analysis and Enology, Aragón Institute of Engineering Research (I3A), Faculty of Sciences, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.
Abstract:
A highly uncommon odorant, 3-methyl-2-butene-1-thiol was detected by using Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry (GC-O) and unequivocally identified for the first time in wine. A purge and trap sampling technique which provides highly representative extracts for olfactometric analysis was used for the extraction of the volatile fraction of a Spanish red wine made from Prieto Picudo grapes. The identification of the odorant was achieved by multidimensional gas chromatography analysis of the same purge and trap extract. Mass spectrum and retention indices in both polar and non-polar columns allowed knowing unequivocally the identity. To obtain quantitative data a method was validated for the analysis of the compound at ng L(-1) level with acceptable precision. This powerful odorant presented an odor threshold in wine of 0.5-1 ng L(-1) and it has been detected in several Prieto Picudo wines at concentrations slightly above the odor threshold.
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