In this study; rapid distillation instrument was used to reduce the distillation time for the determination of volatile acids in wine. The sample pretreatment was optimized. A novel method for the rapid determination of volatile acid in wine was developed. The recovery rate of this novel method was 92.1%. The inter-day and intra-day precisions were 1.01% and 1.32%; respectively. Good reproducibility was achieved. Volatile acid contents in dry; semi dry; semi sweet and sweet wine were measured using this novel method. The results showed no significant difference compared with national standard method (p>0.05). This novel method is simple; accurate and fast because the detection time of a single sample was shortened by 20 minutes.