Chemistry of Wine Flavor (ACS Symposium Series, No. 714)

Review

"Meeting in San Francisco, an easy stagger to some of the world's best wine regions, in April 1997, chemists from around the world trade their findings concerning the chemical basis of why a particular wine tastes a particular way at a particular time. Their reports include methoxypyrazines of grapes and wines, seasonal variation in the production of hydrogen sulfide during fermentation, phenolic composition as related to red wine flavor, why wines taste bitter and feel astringent, the impact of cooperage techniques and aging conditions on the volatile odoriferous compounds in barrel-aged wines, detecting cork taint in wine using automated solid-phase microextraction in combination with GC/MS-SIM, and flavor-matrix interactions."--SciTech Book News"Oxford University Press is distributing Chemistry of Wine by editors: Dr. Andrew L. Waterhouse, associate professor of enology, and Dr. Susan E. Ebeler, assistant professor of enology, at U.C. Davis. The book compiles the latest wine flavor chemistry research results, which were presented at the 1997 American Chemical Society Symposium in San Francisco, California. The compilation includes text and graphics from 16 presentations that ranged in content from 'Why Do Wines Taste Bitter and Feel Astringent' to 'Analysis, Structure and Reactivity of Labile Terpenoid Aroma Precursors in Riesling Wine.'"--Vineyard & Winery Management"This 16-chapter volume, based on a 1997 symposium, covers the chemistry of wine flavors from several perspectives. The first five chapters examine flavors that are derived from grapes, whereas the next four chapters focus on flavors formed during the primary and secondary fermentation process. The effects of polyphenols on the properties of wine are explored in Chapters 10-12, and the remainder of the book covers such topics as aldehyde levels in wines as they age and the interactions between aroma compounds and nonvolatile components in wine and their effect on the overall aroma."--Journal of the American Chemical Society

About the Author

Andrew L. Waterhouse is at University of California, Davis. Susan E. Ebeler is at University of California, Davis.