LGR的专利技术—利用腔增强激光吸收光谱法，记录高吸收光谱，能够精确的测量葡萄酒中的同位素比值。LGR拥有专业的光谱污染标识软件（软件测量植物水的精确数据在权威期刊上发表过），这使得仪器可以测量葡萄酒中的甲醇和乙醇污染物，从而得到可靠的同位素比值数据。
Laser-based measurements of 18O/16O stable isotope ratios (δ18O) in wine samples
应用LGR液态水稳定同位素分析仪测量葡萄酒中的稳定同位素比值18O/16O和δ18O
Manish Gupta1 J Brian Leen1 Elena Simone Franklin Berman1 Aldo Ciambotti2
1Los Gatos Research, Mountain View, CA, USA;
2Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Centro di Ricerca per l’Enologia, Asti, Italy
Abstract: Wine counterfeiting is an international, multi-billion dollar issue, with some estimates suggesting that up to 5% of wines sold at auctions or secondary markets are fraudulent. Isotope ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS) measurements of the 18O/16O stable isotope ratio (δ18O) of water-in-wine have been used for wine authentication; however, these analyses are time-consuming and costly. In this preliminary study, off-axis integrated cavity output spectroscopy (OA-ICOS) is used to quantify δ18O in wines. This laser-based method has been extensively used to study water isotopes for hydrological and medical applications. Recently, the development of a spectral contaminant identifier (SCI) has extended the application of these OA-ICOS analyzers to contaminated water samples (eg, plant, soil, and leaf waters). Here, we utilize OA-ICOS with the SCI to characterize wine samples (9%–15% ethanol), and show that the laser-based instrument provides a δ18O measurement precision of ±0.07‰ (1σ) and agrees with IRMS to within ±0.63‰ (1σ). Moreover, by training the SCI on isotopically-characterized wines, the agreement with IRMS improves to within ±0.30‰ (1σ). The utility of the instrument is demonstrated by measuring watered and mixed wines. The method presented here can be readily extended to address other food authentication applications.
Keywords: wine isotopes, wine fraud, counterfeit wines, OA-ICOS
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