“…Recently, there has been considerable interest in the application of spectroscopies, including near infrared (NIR) (Liu et al 2006, Casale et al 2010b, Riovanto et al 2011, Martelo-Vidal and Vázquez 2014, middle infrared (MIR) (Bevin et al 2008, Riovanto et al 2011, fluorescence (Dufour et al 2006, Le Moigne et al 2008, Airado-Rodríguez et al 2009, Sádecká et al 2009, Wan et al 2012, Markechová et al 2014) and ultraviolet (UV)-visible (VIS) (Liu et al 2006, Urbano et al 2006, Acevedo et al 2007, Le Moigne et al 2008, Casale et al 2010b, Pereira et al 2011, Riovanto et al 2011, Azcarate et al 2013, Martelo-Vidal and Vázquez 2014, to the classification of wines and the monitoring of wine ageing or grape ripening.…”