摘要

The potential of a gas chromatography (GC)-based electronic nose (E-nose) combined with chemometrics to classify Chinese rice wine by wine age was investigated. Olfactive fingerprints of 1-, 3-, and 5-year Chinese rice wine samples collected by the E-nose were analyzed by principal component analysis (PCA) and discriminant analysis (DA). Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) was used for wine age validation purpose. The results indicated that the percentage of samples correctly classified by the E-nose was 96.88 %. It was concluded that the GC-based E-nose together with DA was a reliable method for wine age discrimination.