“…Due to the complexity of wine, generally the analysis of BAs is accompanied by the use of techniques of pre or post column derivatisation, which permit a significant advance in the sensitivity on eliminating interferences. Among the different reagents used are: dansyl chloride (Csomos and Simonne, 2002;Anli et al, 2004;Caruso et al, 2002), o-phthalaldehyde (Herbert et al, 2001(Herbert et al, , 2004Gló ria et al, 1998;Iñ iguez-Crespo and Vá zquezLasa, 1994;Busto et al, 1997;Mafra et al, 1999;Vidal-Carou et al, 2003;Leitão et al, 2005;Moreno-Arribas et al, 2003;Martínez et al, 2000;Lavizzari et al, 2006;Del Prete et al, 2009), dabsyl chloride (Romero et al, 2000;Romero et al, 2002) and 6-aminoquinolyl-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl carbamate (Jimé nez- Moreno et al, 2003;Torrea and Ancín, 2001;Torrea and Ancín, 2002;Martínez et al, 2000).…”