A study of the influence of Oidium tuckeri on anthocyanins and the hyd
roxycinnamic tartaric esters of grapes and red wines was carried out d
uring the 1993 harvest. After infection the level of anthocyanins in t
he skins of berries and in wines was lower than in healthy grapes and
their wines. It is of particular interest that two bisubstituted antho
cyanins reacted less sensitive to the pathogen. Wines from infected gr
apes contained more hydroxycinnamic tartaric esters.