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Therefore, the aim of this study was to shed further light on this issue by tasting blind wines of both types of production using a tasting panel comprised by experienced individuals of several nationalities. The tasted wines were both conventional and organic and were with and without off-flavours. The same wines were evaluated in three tasting sessions where the given information was: (1) all wines were conventional, (2) all wines were organic, and (3) tasters were asked to guess the mode of production. A group of untrained tasters also rated the same organic wines in an informed session. The results showed that wines were significantly better scored and were given a higher willingness to pay value in the \u201corganic\u201d session. In addition, the experienced tasting panel produced a list of the most frequent sensory descriptors. When tasters were asked to guess the mode of production, wines that were supposed to be organic received a higher citation of off-flavours, such as \u201coxidized\u201d, \u201creductive\u201d, and \u201canimal\/undergrowth\u201d. Moreover, an overall emotional response of unpleasantness was associated with the recognition of organic wines in the \u201cguess\u201d session. Untrained tasters rated the same organic wines with lower liking scores and were willing to pay less. In conclusion, off-flavours and their unpleasantness worked as a cue to identify wines supposed to be organic by experienced tasters. Their corresponding higher valorization could be explained by the psychological halo effect induced by the organic label. Contrarily, consumers did not show this halo effect, depreciating wines with unpleasant flavours irrespective of their mode of production.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/foods9010105","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,21]],"date-time":"2020-01-21T03:04:43Z","timestamp":1579575883000},"page":"105","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Off-Flavours and Unpleasantness Are Cues for the Recognition and Valorization of Organic Wines by Experienced Tasters"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Mylena","family":"Romano","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Linking Landscape Environment Agriculture and Food (LEAF) Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2725-2948","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mahesh","family":"Chandra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Linking Landscape Environment Agriculture and Food (LEAF) Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Mkrtich","family":"Harutunyan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Linking Landscape Environment Agriculture and Food (LEAF) Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Taciana","family":"Savian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Exact Sciences, College of Agriculture Luiz de Queiroz, University of S\u00e3o Paulo, 13418-900 S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil"}]},{"given":"Cristian","family":"Villegas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Exact Sciences, College of Agriculture Luiz de Queiroz, University of S\u00e3o Paulo, 13418-900 S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil"}]},{"given":"Val\u00e9ria","family":"Minim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Food Technology, Federal University of Vi\u00e7osa, Av. 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