“…For these reasons, the elemental composition of different type of wines have been investigated with the aim of correlating them to the provenance soil for geographical tracing purposes (for an extensive review see Versari et al, 2014) ( Table 1 ). However, the critical reading of the scientific literature published in this field of research demonstrates that the determination of the chemical descriptors for the origin of wines are strongly dependent on a plethora of factors, as for instance the number of samples used in the analyses, the type of wine (i.e., white, red, or rosè), the pattern recognition technique applied for the statistical analysis [e.g., Discriminant Analysis, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Cluster Analysis, Stepwise Linear Discriminant Analysis and similar] and, most importantly, the geographical origin (Baxter et al, 1997; Díaz et al, 2003; Marengo and Aceto, 2003; Castiñeira et al, 2004; Jos et al, 2004; Thiel et al, 2004; Coetzee et al, 2005, 2014; Angus et al, 2006; Capron et al, 2007; Galgano et al, 2008; Serapinas et al, 2008; Forina et al, 2009; Fabani et al, 2010; Catarino et al, 2011; Rodrigues et al, 2011; Martin et al, 2012; Zou et al, 2012; Azcarate et al, 2013; Geana et al, 2013; Šelih et al, 2014). As also shown in Table 1 , the majority of geographical tracing studies explores the analytical dataset by means of unsupervised pattern recognition analyses (e.g., PCA) and, once the most discriminant variables have been found, ad hoc statistical analyses, specifically supervised methods, are run in order to exacerbate the clusterization and to extract further information from the dataset.…”