## 3 Results and Discussions
### Volatile Compounds in Melon Wines
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c} \hline \hline
**R.T.** & **Tentative ID** & **KI** & **Jimbee Must** & **Jimbee Wine** & **Okashi Must** & **Okashi Wine** \\ \hline \multicolumn{6}{c}{_Esters_} \\ \hline
2.171 & Methyl acetate & \textless{}1100 & 117.08 \({}^{\text{z}}\)\(\pm\) 1.57 & n.d. & n.d. & n.d. \\
2.477 & Ethyl Acetate & \textless{}1100 & 219.19 \(\pm\) 2.51 & 672.16 \(\pm\) 117.71 & 151.56 \(\pm\) 2.34 & 456.61 \(\pm\) 59.24 \\
3.079 & Ethyl propionate & \textless{}1100 & 15.24 \(\pm\) 0.08 & n.d. & 19.25 \(\pm\) 0.32 & n.d. \\
3.276 & n-Propyl acetate & \textless{}1100 & 36.87 \(\pm\) 0.53 & n.d. & 19.76 \(\pm\) 0.34 & n.d. \\
3.793 & Isobutyl acetate & \textless{}1100 & 132.65 \(\pm\) 2.13 & n.d. & 113.95 \(\pm\) 2.77 & n.d. \\
4.187 & Ethyl butanoate & \textless{}1100 & 63.18 \(\pm\) 0.69 & 36.10 \(\pm\) 6.40 & 41.46 \(\pm\) 0.77 & n.d. \\
4.471 & Ethyl 2-methyl-butanoate & \textless{}1100 & 22.03 \(\pm\) 0.60 & n.d. & 48.16 \(\pm\) 0.80 & n.d. \\
4.876 & Butyl acetate & \textless{}1100 & 257.51 \(\pm\) 5.22 & 22.66 \(\pm\) 7.37 & 87.90 \(\pm\) 2.06 & n.d. \\
6.047 & 2-Methyl-1-butyl acetate & \textless{}1100 & 40.69 \(\pm\) 3.64 & 194.39 \(\pm\) 45.14 & 64.60 \(\pm\) 3.79 & 310.69 \(\pm\) 91.07 \\
6.582 & Propyl 2-methyl-butanoate & \textless{}1100 & n.d. & n.d. & 6.08 \(\pm\) 0.41 & n.d. \\
7.623 & Pentyl acetate & 1110 & n.d. & n.d. & 7.42 \(\pm\) 0.92 & n.d. \\
10.047 & Ethyl hexanoate & 1194 & 6.31 \(\pm\) 0.23 & 156.95 \(\pm\) 40.09 & 7.28 \(\pm\) 0.11 & 405.28 \(\pm\) 68.15 \\
11.861 & Hexyl acetate & 1245 & 62.41 \(\pm\) 1.08 & n.d. & 63.35 \(\pm\) 3.68 & n.d. \\
13.790 & 4-Hexen-1-ol acetate- & 1290 & n.d. & n.d. & 37.76 \(\pm\) 1.17 & n.d. \\
20.526 & Ethyl octanoate & 1423 & n.d. & 1271.05 \(\pm\) 232.08 & n.d. & 3876.75 \(\pm\) 276.55 \\
21.683 & Heplyl formate & 1445 & 7.50 \(\pm\) 0.55 & n.d. & n.d. & n.d. \\
22.693 & Octyl acetate & 1463 & 17.02 \(\pm\) 3.86 & n.d. & n.d. & n.d. \\
23.312 & Butane-2,3-diyl diacetate & 1474 & 18.90 \(\pm\) 0.29 & n.d. & n.d. & n.d. \\
26.111 & Ethyl nonanoate & 1519 & n.d. & 27.32 \(\pm\) 0.87 & n.d. & 25.20 \(\pm\) 0.83 \\
28.830 & Ethyl 3-Nonenoate & 1556 & n.d. & n.d. & n.d. & 29.31 \(\pm\) 1.74 \\
29.328 & Methyl decanoate & 1562 & n.d. & n.d. & n.d. & 49.65 \(\pm\) 1.94 \\
31.552 & Ethyl decanoate & 1590 & n.d. & 600.12 \(\pm\) 79.84 & n.d. & 1197.58 \(\pm\) 58.97 \\
32.185 & 3-Methylbutyl octanoate & 1597 & n.d. & n.d. & n.d. & 63.40 \(\pm\) 5.21 \\
33.515 & Phenylmethyl acetate & 1695 & 4.82 \(\pm\) 2.41 & n.d. & 6.08 \(\pm\) 0.06 & n.d. \\
33.005 & Ethyl 9-decenoate & 1651 & n.d. & n.d. & n.d. & 696.19 \(\pm\) 72.37 \\
33.881 & Ethyl methoxyacetate & 1711 & n.d. & 49.24 \(\pm\) 14.90 & n.d. & 32.89 \(\pm\) 0.81 \\
35.245 & Phenethyl acetate & 1761 & n.d. & 74.92 \(\pm\) 0.73 & n.d. & 258.95 \(\pm\) 3.74 \\
35.354 & Methyl laurate & 1765 & n.d. & 31.82 \(\pm\) 4.70 & n.d. & n.d. \\
36.056 & Ethyl laurate & 1790 & n.d. & 318.35 \(\pm\) 41.66 & n.d. & n.d. \\
36.361 & 3-Methylbutyl decanoate & 1802 & n.d. & n.d. & n.d. & 41.58 \(\pm\) 1.58 \\
38.724 & Methyl 2,4,6-trimethyl/nonanoate & 2005 & n.d. & 101.73 \(\pm\) 2.15 & n.d. & n.d. \\
39.783 & Ethyl nonanoate & 2102 & n.d. & n.d. & n.d. & 10.37 \(\pm\) 1.07 \\
40.420 & Methyl palmitate & 2159 & n.d. & n.d. & n.d. & 44.54 \(\pm\) 0.81 \\
40.827 & Ethyl palmitate & 2195 & n.d. & 67.14 \(\pm\) 12.19 & n.d. & 377.98 \(\pm\) 10.05 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 5: Identification and quantification (\(\mathrm{\SIUnitSymbolMicro g}/\mathrm{L}\)) of volatile compounds in the Jimbee and Okashi melon musts and wines. With regard to the Okashi melon wine, acetate esters initially predominated as ethyl acetate, isobutyl acetate, butyl acetate, 2-methyl-1-butyl acetate and hexyl acetate, and aldehyde as 6-nonenal and 2,6-nonadienal; all of these had been previously described in muskmelon and Galia melon [35; 38]. The content in alcohol compounds was lower than in the Jimbee cultivar, in which nonen-1-ol isomers were predominant in the Okashi must.