Ricerc@Sapienza

Il riconoscimento in Italia della birra artigianale, unito all’aumento esponenziale del numero di microbirrifici, rivela
un settore dalle grandi potenzialità di sviluppo. In tale contesto, potrebbe rivelarsi necessario individuare strumenti
oggettivi in grado di contribuire a tutelare e valorizzare il prodotto artigianale in termini di qualità superiore e
di fornire al consumatore elementi per distinguere sul mercato un prodotto che realmente rispetti la normativa in

The reduction of alcohol content in wines has two main objectives, the former is decreasing the wines’ strength and the latter is producing new low alcohol beverages. To accomplish the latter, in this study, we focused on the dealcoholization of a white wine (cv Falanghina, 12.5 vol%) obtained from an ancient Italian grape variety that has recently aroused a renewed interest. It was dealcoholized at various alcohol content levels ranging from 9.8 to 0.3 vol% through the osmotic distillation process, and the main quality parameters of the obtained dealcoholized samples were evaluated.

Neuro-marketing (neuroscience applied to marketing aims) has been already used for evaluating consumers’ preferences within the food and agricultural sector (Cherubino et al., 2017), in food tasting and olfaction experiments (Di Flumeri et al., 2016, 2017), as well as in the wine tasting (Horska E., et al, 2016). Aim of this pilot study is to investigate whether or not the sense of olfaction represents a statistically significant variable in the experience of wine tasting.

The purpose of the present work was to find a correlation between microencapsulation technology applied to
wines and the resulting quality of the wine itself in terms of volatile composition and phenolic profile. To this
aim, samples of Nero d’Avola wines produced in Sicily (Italy) were investigated in order to: i) elucidate the
aromatic composition by means of HS–SPME coupled with GC–MS; ii) assess the polyphenolic content by UHPLC
mass spectrometry; iii) compare the results obtained from both the screenings with those relative to the same