Volatile Compounds Identified and Quantified in Moldova’s Wines

Abstract

In this paper we studied and characterized four wines from the grape varieties Busuioaca de Bohotin, Feteasca neagră, Muscat Ottonel, Pinot gris, harvests of 2016, 2017, 2018, coming from the: Bohotin, Cotești, Cotnari, Huși and Iasi vineyards. The GC-MS methods were utilized to identifing and quantifing the volatile compounds of thies wines.The results obtained being grouped into three categories, namely: higher alcohols, volatile acids and esters. It was found that the higher alcohols have minimum values between 195.07 mg / L and maximum values of 257.2 mg / L in Huși and Bohotin for Feteascea black wine, the volatile acids do not exceed 17.92 mg / L in Cotnari in Muscat wine Ottonel and the esters reach values of 204.78 mg / L at the Cotești vineyard in the case of Fetească neagră wine. From the results obtained we distinguish the Feteasca neagră wine with the optimal ratio between the three monitored indicators.