Simple determination of main organic acids in grape juice and wine by using capillary zone electrophoresis with direct UV detection

An accurate, simple and rapid capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) method with direct UV detection has been set up for the determination of main organic acids in grape juice and wine. The determination of tartaric, malic, and citric acids in grape juices and tartaric, malic, succinic, acetic, lactic and citric acids in wines can be achieved in less than 3 min with only a simple dilution and filtration treatment of the sample. Validation parameters of the method as detection and quantification limits, linearity, precision (intraday and interday analysis) and recovery were also studied in grape juice, white wine, rose wine and red wine, separately. The proposed method decreases the analysis times of the previous reported CZE methods and allows the rapid control of the grape maturity, the winemaking processes and the detection of wine alterations and/or illnesses. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.