Accurate and reproducible wine-quality assessment is essential for production control.
A unified benchmark of five ensemble learners (Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost) was conducted on Vinho Verde red- and white-wine datasets.
Gradient Boosting showed the highest accuracy in the study, followed closely by Random Forest and XGBoost.
The study recommended Random Forest as the most cost-effective model for wine-quality prediction.