Geographical product recognition has become an issue for researchers and food industries. One way to obtain useful information about the fingerprint of wines is by examining that fingerprint's chemical components. In this paper, we present a data mining and predictive analysis to classify Brazilian and Uruguayan Tannat wines from the South region using the support vector machine (SVM) classification algorithm with the radial basis kernel function and the F-score feature selection method. A total of 37 Tannat wines differing in geographical origin (9 Brazilian samples and 28 Uruguayan samples) were analyzed. We concluded that given the use of at least one anthocyanin (peon-3-glu) and the radical scavenging activity (DPPH), the Tannat wines can be classified with 94.64% accuracy and 0.90 Matthew's correlation coefficient (MCC). Furthermore, the combination of SVM and feature selection proved useful for determining the main chemical parameters that discriminate with regard to the origin of Tannat wines and classifying them with a high degree of accuracy. Additionally, to our knowledge, this is the first study to classify the Tannat wine variety in the context of two countries in South America. Beverages 2018, 4, 97 2 of 15Unsupervised techniques, such as principal component analysis and cluster analysis, have commonly been employed to differentiate wines [9][10][11][12][13]. However, unsupervised pattern recognition methods must not be confused with classification methods. In some cases, these techniques allow for the identification and visualization of certain patterns, while in other cases, they may be insufficient for finding patterns between food profiles and physicochemical attributes, due to the multitude of compounds and physical attributes that are present in food products [14,15].Other studies have used unsupervised techniques prior to using supervised techniques, such as linear discriminant analysis, partial least squares-discriminant analysis, and decision trees to classify wine samples [8,[16][17][18]. In addition, other advanced techniques available through current data mining methodology have been successfully used to classify wines and other food products according to their geographical origin and variety, such as support vector machines (SVM) [19]. In addition, SVM is a suitable classifier for balanced datasets [20].The SVM classification algorithm has been demonstrated to be useful for wine classification. For example, a total of 44 Polish white and red wine samples from different parts of Poland were classified [21]. The authors used principal component analysis (PCA) as an exploratory analysis and support vector machine method, with a radial basis function (RBF), to classify the data according to grape variety, geographic region, sugar content, alcohol content, type of yeast used, post-fermentation treatment, and the temperature in the fermentation process. The main results of this study of the classification of white and red wines, according to the variety of grapes used for production, showed 98...