Research Article

The Influence of Prefermentation Skin Contact, Stabulation, and Skin Fermentation on the Aromatic Behaviour and Phenolic Compounds of Important Austrian White Wine Cultivars

Table 3

Average content of volatile and phenolic compounds and the sum parameters of the Sauvignon Blanc variants (the entire dataset is shown in Table S5).

SB CSB 12 h SCSB 24 h SCSB 3D STSB 7D ST

3MHA (ng/l)24 ± 819 ± 523 ± 415 ± 818 ± 8
3MH (ng/l)522a ± 25560a ± 12641b ± 18497a ± 38726c ± 46
IBMP (ng/l)3a ± 06d ± 15bc ± 14ab ± 06cd ± 1
Rotundone (ng/l)<2<2<2<2<2
Sum free monoterpenes (μg/l)25.1a ± 1.827.4a ± 0.949.7b ± 4.175.3c ± 3.952.7b ± 4.3
Sum aromatic esters (μg/l)1.0a ± 0.10.9a ± 0.11.5b ± 0.11.8c ± 0.11.8c ± 0.1
Sum acetate esters of higher alcohols (μg/l)1.336, 6c ± 86.91.186, 2bc ± 28.1801.9a ± 28.41.111, 4b ± 89.21.150, 7bc ± 135.1
Sum ethyl esters of carboxylic acids with an even number of C atoms (μg/l)3.238, 4 ± 326.62.844, 3 ± 85.52.620, 5 ± 161.43.401, 4 ± 262.73.412, 1 ± 119.7
Sum esters of higher alcohols and medium-length chain carboxylic acids (μg/l)5.7 ± 0.45.9 ± 0.45.8 ± 0.15.8 ± 0.26.1 ± 0.2
Sum ethyl esters of carboxylic acids with an odd number of C atoms (μg/l)1.2 ± 0.11.2 ± 0.11.5 ± 0.11.3 ± 0.11.4 ± 0.1
Sum ester of branched carboxylic acids (μg/l)2.2 ± 0.22.0 ± 0.22.1 ± 0.12.1 ± 0.12.0 ± 0.1
Sum isoamyl ester of medium-long chain carboxylic acids (μg/l)1.4a ± 0.11.5a ± 0.11.4a ± 0.11.9b ± 0.21.9b ± 0.1
Sum methyl esters (μg/l)3.5 ± 0.23.7 ± 0.23.5 ± 0.23.0 ± 0.13.4 ± 0.3
Sum minor esters (μg/l)4.590, 0b ± 377.34.045, 7ab ± 113.53.438, 2a ± 189.74.528, 6b ± 344.74.579, 5b ± 253.4
Sum higher alcohols (mg/l)94.31 ± 9.08100.89 ± 8.2793.75 ± 4.92108.92 ± 5.7799.22 ± 4.49
Sum C6 compounds (mg/l)0.79 ± 0.080.81 ± 0.080.83 ± 0.040.77 ± 0.030.83 ± 0.06
Sum major ethyl esters (mg/l)71.74 ± 9.6072.50 ± 3.0872.26 ± 8.1677.33 ± 5.6676.94 ± 5.79
Sum carbonacids (mg/l)32.05 ± 0.4434.54 ± 0.7733.98 ± 1.5534.80 ± 2.2533.42 ± 0.84
Total phenols (g/l)0.067 ± 0.0120.067 ± 0.0060.063 ± 0.0060.063 ± 0.0060.060 ± 0.000

SB C: control; SB 12 h SC: 12 h of prefermentation skin contact; SB 24 h SC: 24 h of prefermentation skin contact; SB 3D ST: 3 days of stabulation; SB 7D ST: 7 days of stabulation; n.d., not detectable. N = 3 per treatment variant. The same letter indicates no significant difference. The data were analysed with one-way analysis of variance with the Benjamin–Hochberg correction followed by the Tukey B test for pairwise comparisons ().