A German Riesling wine has been fractionated with the aid of countercurrent chromatography. After purification by HPLC, the structures of 101 compounds were established by mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy. Seventy-three of the isolated compounds exhibited a phenolic or benzylic structure. Fifty-four compounds were reported for the first time as Riesling wine constituents. New compounds identified in this work included twelve benzoic and cinnamic acid derivatives. In addition to two isomeric (E)-caffeoyl ethyl tartrates, the glucose esters of (E)-cinnamic, (E)-p-coumaric, and (E)-ferulic acid, as well as the 4-O-glucosides of (E)- and (Z)-ferulic acid, have been identified for the first time in Riesling wine. The structures of two additional phenylpropanoids were elucidated as 3-hydroxy-1-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-propan-1-one and 2,3-dihydroxy-1-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-propan-1-one. Moreover, two ethyl esters, i.e., ethyl protocatechuate and ethyl gallate, as well as the glucose ester of vanillic acid, were newly detected in Riesling wine. Novel representatives in the flavonoid group were dihydrokaempferol, dihydroquercetin, and four dihydroflavonol glycoconjugates, i.e., the 3-O-glucosides of dihydrokaempferol and dihydroquercetin, as well as the 3-O-xyloside and the 3'-O-glucoside of dihydroquercetin. Additionally, six novel lignans, i.e., lariciresinol 4-O-glucoside, three isolariciresinol derivatives, and two secoisolariciresinols, as well as three neolignans were isolated. Structural elucidation of the newly isolated wine constituents is reported together with the determination of their antioxidant activity.

Besides the already known stilbenes trans-resveratrol as well as isomeric piceids seven novel stilbene derivatives have been isolated from a commercial Riesling wine. The newly identified compounds included the monostilbene 2,4,6-trihydroxyphenanthrene-2-O-glucoside, as well as two isomeric resveratrol-2-C-glucosides. In addition, four dimeric stilbenes, i.e., cis- and trans-epsilon-viniferin diglucoside as well as pallidol glucoside and pallidol diglucoside, have also been obtained for the first time from Riesling wine.

A glycosidic isolate of Riesling wine was separated with multilayer coil countercurrent chromatography (MLCCC). After acetylation and subsequent purification by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), the glucose esters of (E)-2,6-dimethyl-6-hydroxyocta-2,7-dienoic acid (1) and (2E,6E)-10,11-dihydroxy-3,7,11-trimethyl-2,6-dodecadienoic acid (2) were identified for the first time as wine constituents. The identification was achieved by mass spectrometry (DCI-MS) as well as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H NMR, 13C NMR, COSY, HMBC). In biomimetic studies carried out with (E)-2,6-dimethyl-6-hydroxyocta-2,7-dienoic acid the potent wine aroma compound 3a,4,5,7a-tetrahydro-3,6-dimethylbenzofuran-2(3H)-one (wine lactone) was formed, thus revealing an important aroma precursor function for glucoconjugate 1. Keywords: (E)-2,6-Dimethyl-6-hydroxyocta-2,7-dienoic acid glucose ester; (2E,6E)-10,11-dihydroxy-3,7,11-trimethyl-2,6-dodecadienoic acid glucose ester; aroma precursor; wine lactone; multilayer coil countercurrent chromatography; Riesling wine

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