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Type: Journal article
Title: Substitution or dilution? Assessing pre-fermentative water implementation to produce lower alcohol Shiraz wines
Author: Schelezki, O.J.
Deloire, A.
Jeffery, D.W.
Citation: Molecules, 2020; 25(9):2245-1-2245-17
Publisher: MDPI
Issue Date: 2020
ISSN: 1420-3049
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Olaf J. Schelezki, Alain Deloire and David W. Jeffery
Abstract: Changes to regulations by Food Standards Australia New Zealand have permitted the adjustment of must sugar levels with the addition of water in order to ensure a sound fermentation progress as well as mitigating excessive wine-alcohol levels. This study assessed the implications for Shiraz wine quality following a pre-fermentative must dilution (changing liquid-to-solid ratios), in comparison to juice substitution with water (constant liquid-to-solid ratios) that has previously been deemed a promising way to adjust wine-alcohol levels. While working within the legal limit of water addition to grape must, the effects of both approaches on wine quality parameters and sensory characteristics were rather similar, and of negligible nature. However, different implications between substitution and dilution appeared to be driven by grape maturity, and dilution was found to have a greater impact than substitution on some parameters at higher water implementation rates. In line with previous observations, longer hang-time followed by alcohol adjustments via pre-fermentation water addition were of limited merit compared to simply picking grapes earlier. This work provided further knowledge that supports informed decision making regarding the recently permitted approach of using water during winemaking.
Keywords: Wine quality; polyphenols; tannins; wine colour; sensory; descriptive analysis; climate; harvest timing
Rights: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
DOI: 10.3390/molecules25092245
Grant ID: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/IC130100005
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25092245
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