Assessing White Wine Viscosity Variation Using Polarized Laser Speckle: A Promising Alternative to Wine Sensory Analysis

Autor: Christelle Abou Nader, Hadi Loutfi, Fabrice Pellen, Bernard Le Jeune, Guy Le Brun, Roger Lteif, Marie Abboud
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 17, Iss 10, p 2340 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
17102340
DOI: 10.3390/s17102340
Popis: In this paper, we report measurements of wine viscosity, correlated to polarized laser speckle results. Experiments were performed on white wine samples produced with a single grape variety. Effects of the wine making cellar, the grape variety, and the vintage on wine Brix degree, alcohol content, viscosity, and speckle parameters are considered. We show that speckle parameters, namely, spatial contrast and speckle decorrelation time, as well as the inertia moment extracted from the temporal history speckle pattern, are mainly affected by the alcohol and sugar content and hence the wine viscosity. Principal component analysis revealed a high correlation between laser speckle results on the one hand and viscosity and Brix degree values on the other. As speckle analysis proved to be an efficient method of measuring the variation of the viscosity of white mono-variety wine, one can therefore consider it as an alternative method to wine sensory analysis.
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