The preliminary results obtained have shown that radiation can make wine better in quality and taste sweet and mellow. Through chromatographic analysis it was shown that the irradiated Baishaye wine has higher contents of total ester
total alcohol
total aldehyde and total acid than the control. Except for iso-butanol
eghyl valerate and hexanoic acid
the ethyl caproate ethyl lactate
ethyl acetate
ethyl formate
ethyl butyrate
n-propyl alcohol
secondary butanol
n-butanol
isoamyl alcohol
acetaldehyde
acetal
biacetyl
formic acid
acetic acid and latic acid in the irradiated wine are all higher than those of control.