AZCARATE , Silvana M.

In recent years, methodologies based on spectral analysis, using ultraviolet–visible (UV-Vis) radiation, have experienced an amazing development and have been widely applied in various fields such as agricultural, food, pharmaceutical, and environmental sciences. This straightforward technique has re-emerged with novel and challenging proposals...

Capillary electrophoresis with diode array detection (CE-DAD) and multidimensional fluorescence spectroscopy (EEM) second-order data were fused and chemometrically processed for geographical and grape variety classification of wines. Multi-levels data fusion strategies on three-way data were evaluated and compared revealing their...

Fortified wines covered by a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) are high-quality products appreciated by consumers, whose diversity has increased in recent years, leading to an increased vulnerability to fraud. In this work, for the first time, an excitation-emission fluorescence spectroscopy method combined with two chemometric approaches...

Ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy has shown successful results in the last few years to characterize and classify wine vinegar according to its quality, particularly those with a protected designation of origin (PDO). Due to these promising results, together with the simplicity, price, speed, portability of this technique and its...

A practice in wine vinegar production is the addition of grape-must caramel to correct and unify the final colour of different batches. Although current legislation allows it, the effect in vinegars' quality has not been studied yet and it can become a fraud when it is used to simulate the effect of a longer ageing. Therefore, the aim of this...