%0 Journal Article %A Fotakis, Charalambos%A %A Christodouleas, Dionysios%A %A Zervou, Maria%A %A Papadopoulos, Kyriakos%A %A Calokerinos, Antony C. %D 2012 %T CLASSIFICATION OF WINES BASED ON DIFFERENT ANTIOXIDANT RESPONSES TO SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC ANALYTICAL METHODS %J Analytical Letters %V 45 %@ 0003-2719 %R 10.1080/00032719.2011.649456 %I Taylor & Francis Incorporated %P 581–591 %N 5–6 %U https://hdl.handle.net/10442/12401 %X Six well established spectrophotometric assays (Folin-Ciocalteu, DPPH, ABTS(center dot+), FRAP, CUPRAC, and the o-diphenols method) have been complementary implemented in order to estimate the total phenolic and o-diphenolic content as well as the free radical scavenging and reducing antioxidant capacities of 40 white and 10 red wines of different varieties and geographic origin. In white wines, the results were weakly correlated; whereas, the results in red wines were strongly correlated, therefore, postulating their separate use in order to estimate efficiently the correlation between results of these methods. The results were subjected to the unsupervised PCA pattern recognition method to investigate the possible classification of white wines. PC analysis framed the wine samples in clear clusters, when the extracted PCA model was based on the results of all six spectrophotometric assays. The usefulness of implementing assays based on different antioxidant mechanisms is discussed. To our knowledge, this is the first time different responses of antioxidants to these spectrophotometric assays have been used to classify white wines according to their variety. %> Αποθετήριο Ήλιος / ΕΙΕ