Descriptive screening and lexicon development of non‐aged artisanal cachaça sensorial profile using principal component analysis and Kohonen artificial neural networks

Cachaça is a distilled spirit made from sugarcane, exclusively produced in Brazil, and appreciated worldwide. This paper seeks to evaluate the sensory characteristics of 24 nonaged artisanal cachaça samples from Salinas (Minas Gerais, Brazil) through descriptive analysis, as well as chemometrically treat the obtained data based on principal components analysis (PCA) and Kohonen's neural network. The attributes (23) were divided between aroma...