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AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF I-Mm Tsai for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Food Science and Technology, presented on March 28, 2006. Title: Understanding Aroma Impacts of Four Important Volatile Sulfur Compounds in Oregon Pinot noir Wines. Redacted for privacy Abstract approved: Mina R. McDaniel Sensory properties of four important volatile sulfur compounds, dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), diethyl disulfide (DEDS), methanethiol (MeSH) and ethanethiol (EtSH), were determined in base Oregon Pinot noir wine in order to understand their impacts on wine aroma. Detection thresholds of these four compounds in base wine were determined first. All four compoundswere found to have very low detection thresholds (in ppb) in base wine. Group thresholds of DMDS ranged from 11.18 to 23.57 ppb, those of DEDS ranged from 1.45 to 2.16 ppb, those of MeSH ranged from 1.72 to 1.82 ppb and those of EtSH ranged from 0.19 to 0.23 ppb. Subjects' abilities to detect these compounds in Pinot noir winewere very different. Aroma characteristics of the four compoundsas well as their interactions in base wine were profiled via descriptive analysis. Aroma of DMDS in base wine was mainly described as old cabbage and rotten cabbage. DEDS aroma in wine was perceived as skunky, sweaty, and tire-like. Aroma of MeSH in wine was associated with stale vegetables, animal, rubbery, and slop. EtSHaroma in base wine was mainly described as durian, garlic, staleeggs, and natural gas. Odor suppression was observed when twoor four sulfur compounds were mixed together in base wine. Perceiving off-odors in base winewas driven by MeSH and EtSH when both MeSH and DMDSor both EtSH and DEDS were present. EtSH affected wine aromas more when both MeSH and EtSHwere present in base wine; however, MeSH governed wine off-odorsmore than EtSH under the influence of subthreshold levels of two disulfides. Mercaptanscan significantly affect aroma quality of Oregon Pinot noir wine atvery low concentrations (in ppb level); they have a stronger effect than disulfides. Regarding the impacts ofbase wine aromas caused by the four sulfur compounds, base wine lost its fruity and floralcharacter and increased overall intensity, overall stinky,nose burn and sulfur-related odors while concentrations of the four volatile sulfur compounds inbase wine increased. Aroma changes of fruity, floral andnose burn can be used by winemakers to diagnose the early presence of volatile sulfur compounds in OregonPinot noir wine during winemaking and wine storage. ©Copyright by I-Mm Tsai March 28, 2006 All Rights Reserved Understanding Aroma Impacts of Four Important Volatile Sulfur Compounds in Oregon Pinot noir Wines by I-Mm Tsai A DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Presented March 28, 2006 Commencement June 2006 Doctor of Philosophy dissertation of I-Mm Tsai presented on March 28. 2006. APPROVED: Redacted for privacy Major Professor, representing Food Science & Technology Redacted for privacy Head of the Department of Food Science & Technology Redacted for privacy Dean of the/GadtIate School I understand that my dissertation will become a part of the permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature below authorizes release of my dissertation to any reader upon request. Redacted for privacy I-Mm Tsai, Author ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my major professor, Dr. Mina McDaniel for supportingand giving me guidance on my research andmy life in the U.S.; thank Barney Watson for financially supportingmy research and making me enthusiastic about table wines; thank my minor professor, Dr. Virginia Lesser for adviceon statistics and the committee members, Dr. Charles Boyer, Dr. Ulrich Orth, andDr. Yanyun Zhao. Many thanks are given to Dr. Anne Plotto and Dr. Kannapon Lopetcharat for helping my thesis. Thank Dr. Jim Kennedy and Jeff Clawson for helpingme make Pinot noir wine and Dr. Michael Qian for lettingme use his lab facilities to prepare wine samples and run chemical analyses. Thank allmy panelists, Fan, Fang, Fiorella, Helen, Ian, James, Ping, Rebecca, Seth, Thao, Ying, andPedro for letting me abuse their noses for an entire year. Thank the Northwest Center for Small Fruit Research for funding this project. I also want to thank my lab mates: Cindy Lederer, Astrid Kurnianta,and Renata De Marchi. Thank all FST faculties, staffs and students for helpingand teaching me, especially lola Williams and Christina Hull. Thank Chen-YiChen, who always gives me love and support. Specially thank tomy best friend in Corvallis, Yu Fang. She always helps and supportsme in my research and my life.Fianlly, thank my parents, Wei-Gang Tsai and Shu-Chuan Chen, and allmy relatives in Taiwan for supporting my life and education. CONTRIBUTION OF AUTHORS Yu Fang helped analyze sulfide contents of base Pinot noir wine via GC-PFPD. Dr. Kannapon Lopetcharat was involved with the initial ideas and data analyseson determining group thresholds of the four volatile sulfur compounds basedon beta- binomial model. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. INTRODUCTION................................................................................................. I 2. LITERATURE REVIEW...................................................................................... 4 2.1. VOLATILE SULFUR COMPOUNDS iN WINE......................................... 4 2.1.1. Origin of volatile sulfur compounds in wine........................................... 5 2.1.1.1. Elemental sulfur and sulfur-containing pesticides.........................6 2.1.1.2. Sulfateandsuffite........................................................................... 7 2.1.1.3. Organic sulfur compounds............................................................. 9 2.1.2. Common volatile sulfur compounds found in wine............................... 10 2.1.2.1. Hydrogen sulfide (H25)................................................................ 10 2.1.2.2. Mercaptans................................................................................... 14 2.1.2.3. Polymercaptans............................................................................ 16 2.1.2.4. Thioesters and miscellaneous volatile sulfur compounds............19 2.2. PINOT NOIR WINE AND ITS AROMA AND FLAVOR CHARACTERISTICS................................................................................. 21 2.3. THRESHOLDS AND THRESHOLD DETERMINATION....................... 25 2.4. DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS....................................................................... 31 2.4.1. Flavor Profile......................................................................................... 36 2.4.2. Texture Profile....................................................................................... 37 2.4.3. Quantitative Descriptive Analysis (QDA®)........................................... 39 2.4.4.SpectrumTMDescriptive Analysis.......................................................... 40 2.4.5. Free-choice Profiling.............................................................................. 41 3. DETECTION THRESHOLD DETERMINATION OFFOUR IMPORTANT VOLATILE SULFUR COMPOUNDS IN OREGON PINOT NO1RWINE.....48 3.1. ABSTRACT................................................................................................. 49 3.2. INTRODUCTION....................................................................................... 50 3.3. MATERIALS AND METHODS................................................................. 55 3.3.1. Winemaking........................................................................................... 55 3.3.2. Spiking volatile sulfur compounds into base Pinot noir wine...............56 TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued) 3.3.3. Threshold determination procedures...................................................... 57 3.3.4. Data analysis.......................................................................................... 60 3.3.4.1. Graphic (irobit) method for individual threshold determination.61 3.3.4.2. Logistic method for individual threshold determination..............61 3.3.4.3. Binomial and beta-binomial models forgroup threshold determination............................................................................... 63 3.4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION.................................................................. 64 3.4.1. Aroma descriptions regarding difference between baseand spiked wine during warm-up............................................................................. 64 3.4.2. Individual thresholds.............................................................................. 65 3.4.2.1. Result comparison between graphic (probit) and logistic models......................................................................................... 66 3.4.2.2. Threshold results and sensitivity differenceamong subjects ....... 67 3.4.3. Group thresholds.................................................................................... 71 3.4.3.1. Estimating probability of correctresponses ................................. 71 3.4.3.2. Group threshold determination by the logistic method................73 3.4.4. Implication of threshold results to Oregon Pinot noir wine...................73 3.5. CONCLUSION............................................................................................ 75 3.6. LITERATURE CITED................................................................................ 92 4. PROFILiNG AROMA CHARACTERISTICS OF FOURIMPORTANT VOLATILE SULFUR COMPOUNDS