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. 2019 Jun 25:6:95.
doi: 10.3389/fnut.2019.00095. eCollection 2019.

Chemical Transfers Occurring Through Oenococcus oeni Biofilm in Different Enological Conditions

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Chemical Transfers Occurring Through Oenococcus oeni Biofilm in Different Enological Conditions

Christian Coelho et al. Front Nutr. .

Abstract

Chardonnay wine malolactic fermentations were carried out to evaluate the chemical transfers occurring at the wood/wine interface in the presence of two different bacterial lifestyles. To do this, Oenococcus oeni was inoculated into must and wine in its planktonic and biofilm lifestyles, whether adhering or not to oak chips, leading to three distinct enological conditions: (i) post-alcoholic fermentation inoculation in wine in the absence of oak chips, (ii) post-alcoholic fermentation inoculation in wine in the presence of oak chips, and (iii) co-inoculation of both Saccharomyces cerevisiae and O. oeni directly in Chardonnay musts in the presence of oak chips. Classical microbiological and physico-chemical parameters analyzed during the fermentation processes confirmed that alcoholic fermentation was completed identically regardless of the enological conditions, and that once O. oeni had acquired a biofilm lifestyle in the presence or absence of oak, malolactic fermentation occurred faster and with better reproducibility compared to planktonic lifestyles. Analyses of volatile components (higher alcohols and wood aromas) and non-volatile components (Chardonnay grape polyphenols) carried out in the resulting wines revealed chemical differences, particularly when bacterial biofilms were present at the wood interface. This study revealed the non-specific trapping activity of biofilm networks in the presence of wood and grape compounds regardless of the enological conditions. Changes of concentrations in higher alcohols reflected the fermentation bioactivity of bacterial biofilms on wood surfaces. These chemical transfers were statistically validated by an untargeted approach using Excitation Emission Matrices of Fluorescence combined with multivariate analysis to discriminate innovative enological practices during winemaking and to provide winemakers with an optical tool for validating the biological and chemical differentiations occurring in wine that result from their decisions.

Keywords: O. oeni; biofilm; chemical transfers; malolactic fermentation; optical indices; planktonic; wood.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Evolution of malolactic fermentation of malic acid concentration (black legend) and the increase of the O. oeni cell count (blue legend) over time comparing planktonic adapted PAD (upper part of the figure) vs. biofilm BF (lower part of the figure) lifestyles adopted by O. oeni for the three enological conditions in wine.
Figure 2
Figure 2
(A) Excitation Emission Matrices of Fluorescence analyzed on Chardonnay wines for each condition under the PAD modality after 73 days fermentation. The top left of the color scale represents the fluorescence intensity from 0 (blue) to 4.5 (red) and (B) The principal component analysis representing the PARAFAC components' Fmax distribution across oaked wine malolactic fermentation analyzed at different increasing fermentation times in days (numerical superscript from 1 to 79). Filled squares represent PAD (red symbols)/BF (blue symbols) for Condition 2 and empty squares for Condition 3. The loadings of the four PARAFAC components C1, C2, C3, and C4 are also indicated.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Three-dimensional representation of the concentration of wood, grape, and fermentative components for the three BF/PAD conditions. Red bubbles represent the planktonic lifestyle and blue bubbles the sessile lifestyle. For each condition, a three-dimensional error bar is indicated for each component analyzed. The blue arrow indicates the chemical transfers occurring from PAD to BF fermentation for the three conditions.

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