Slovak Tokaj wines classification with respect to geographical origin by means of one class approaches

Abstract Tokaj wines could be produced only in so called Tokaj/Tokay wine region that falls within two countries Slovakia and Hungary. Thus, wines bearing Tokaj appellation must be produced only in Hungary and Slovakia by traditional process. Unfortunately, some counterfeit wines from neighbour region in Ukraine could be found in market. The aim of this work is to explore a simple UV-VIS spectrum to recognise true Tokaj/Tokay wines from counterfeits and try to differentiate wines based on their country of origin. This type of question can be duly answered using one class classification approach. Two different approaches, Data Driven Soft Independent Modelling of Class Analogy - DD-SIMCA and One-Class Partial Least Squares – OC-PLS were tested and evaluated for this purpose. In both cases, rigorous way models were built and optimized using only samples of the target class. A set of external samples containing samples from target class and non-target were used to validate the models ability to recognize Slovak samples and reject non-Slovak samples. Model based on DD-SIMCA showed better performance (97% correct rating) compared to OC-PLS models (80% correct rating). Comparing both approaches in terms of sensitivity and specificity, both exhibit high sensitivity (low false negative rate: DD-SIMCA 95% and OC-PLS 100%), however the OC-PLS based model showed low specificity (40%) while DD-SIMCA showed high specificity (100%) rejecting all samples out of Slovak origin. Therefore, the results found in this study show that it is possible to successfully combine UV-VIS spectra and DD-SIMCA models to discriminate Tokaj wine samples of Slovak origin from others. Equally important is environmentally friendly (fast, simple, absence of solvents) discrimination method in line with green chemistry.