“…They contribute to sensory characteristics such as color, flavor, astringency and hardness of wine directly or by interaction with proteins, polysaccharides, or other phenolic compounds (Lee and Jaworski, 1987;. The sensory characteristics of wine are influenced by the grape variety, the vinification process and degradation and polymerization of phenolics during the aging of wine (Auw et al, 1996;Zoecklein et al, 1997). These reactions are influenced by storage temperature (Gomez-Plaza et al, 2000;Somers and Evans, 1986;Somers and Pocock, 1990) and duration (Dallas and Laureno, 1994a, b).…”