Chapter 308: Tasting New Wine

"This wine is ......"

In the process of the development of wine culture, because of the differences in glass technology and regional aesthetics in different grape producing areas in the past, gradually wine bottles have also derived a set of inherent patterns, some of the shape of the bottle is related to the variety of wine, and some are related to the origin, and sometimes some can be directly based on the wine bottle to get some information.

But this brown wine bottle he looked very eye-catching, and there was no label on the bottle that represented the winery, Li Qinghui raised his eyebrows slightly, could it be that this boss Wen has a channel for producing wine in addition to mead?

Wine is completely different from mead, wine is the art of time accumulation, not to mention why a lot of capital has spent a lot of money to establish a winery, dig up the world's top brewing and planting team, and produce a wine that is still far from the world's first-class?

You can dig people with money, but the 60 or 70-year-old vines in the top wineries are priceless, and unless the winery sells the whole winery, it is impossible for new entrants to get this resource.

The old vine grapes have a small yield, but they are the essence. The flavor and taste of the wine made from the fruit of the old vine kills the wine made from grapes that are only ten years old, or even a few years old.

Such a young man who is not well-known in the industry, where do you ask him to get the old vine?

And all the people in those top wineries are all above the top, not to mention that you want to buy other people's vineyards, they have to pick people to buy wine, some people they think you are not in the stream, even if you give money, some limited wine with a small production will not be sold to you.

With this level of cognition, Li Qingrui characterizes this bottle of wine as a finished product for amateur wine lovers in her heart.

In recent years, I don't know for what reason, home-brewed wine has become popular in China.

It seems that all of a sudden, along with homemade yogurt, homemade biscuits, and homemade kimchi, has become a hobby for the general public.

As a professional sommelier, I have met the kind of home-brewed wine lover, holding a glass of fermented liquid with foamy foam and half red, and enthusiastically greeting him with a request for a tasting.

But for this kind of thing, there is usually only one answer: "If you don't drink, I won't die!"

The winemaking process is not as simple as yogurt and kimchi, not to mention that winemaking grapes and table grapes are two different varieties, and no yeast is added in the process of brewing, and the natural yeast of the grape skin is used, and the grapes will not be cleaned before brewing. Therefore, the use of pesticides in wine grapes needs to be strictly eliminated, but edible grapes are generally washed and peeled, and the vines are prone to insects, so it is impossible not to use pesticides at all.

In the process of brewing, it is also necessary to strictly control the generation of miscellaneous bacteria, ordinary family workshops are not able to sterilize all the utensils and containers in the brewing process, once harmful microorganisms appear in the self-brewed wine, it will produce fusel (alcohols other than methanol and ethanol), these fusel are a threat to the nervous system, and the ingestion of this fusel will cause headache at light, and it will cause great damage to the retina if it is heavy, and it will be blind if it is not good.

And the home winemaking method often adds a lot of sugar to the wine, which is even more absurd, and the mainstream wineries avoid sugar in the wine making process, and the so-called dry red and dry white are sugar-free glucose wines, which can be drunk even by diabetics.

Not to mention that fermented wines need to be kept at a constant temperature of 20 degrees Celsius, which is impossible for ordinary home-brewed wines.

Li Qinghui made up his mind that if this wine was opened like that kind of shoddy home-brewed grapes, he would not touch a drop.

Takeo wrapped the bottle in a white towel, carefully pulled out the cork with the corkscrew, and slowly poured the crimson liquid into the decanter.

This wine ......

The charming crimson color shocked Li Qingyuan's heart, just looking at this color, it is definitely a good wine!

Chang Zhaowen was also surprised, it seems that Takeo has done a lot of work without himself, and he knows that the taste of high-end red wine is indispensable for the decanting link of B.

However, Chang Zhaowen shook his hand at Takeo: "I don't need to wake up with this wine, you let the guests drink it directly." ”

The purpose of decanting is to allow the wine sealed in the cellar to fully contact with the air, dissipate the odor of sulfur dioxide in the wine, precipitate impurities, and make the bitter tannins soften due to oxidation, so that the wine can reach its best state.

Because expensive wines are usually tightly structured, full-bodied, and full of tannins, these wines must be drunk for a while, and after full contact with the air, the quality of the wine will change, the taste will change greatly, and the complex and multi-layered flavors can be stretched, exuding the unique charm of aged wines.

Some laymen see that good wine needs to be decanted, so no matter what wine has to be decanted for a while, it seems that there is such an extra link, which can make some ordinary wines become high-end.

"No, I think I should still wake up for a while. Li Qingyuan has already decided in his heart that this wine that can be seen from the full body color is definitely a good wine, he doesn't think that this wine will be the ability of Boss Wen or a nameless small winery, it is more likely that they bought a top wine and changed the bottle and tore off the packaging, although he didn't understand what the motive for doing this was, and he didn't know if it was to fool Henggao Group into investing.

But it didn't matter, he remembered the characteristics of tens of thousands of different wines in his head, and as long as he took a sip, he didn't believe that he couldn't taste the doorway of this wine.

Since it is important to taste it, of course, it is necessary to taste the wine in the best condition, and in his opinion, decanting is an important step for an aging wine that cannot be compromised.

"No, you can drink first. Chang Zhaowen shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly, he didn't understand why this group of people attached so much importance to decanting, but his bottle of wine was just made with a super fermenter before going out today, and it was in the best condition in itself, so why bother.

"Okay, I'll try it first. The fat general lifted the liquor that Takeo had poured into the glass for him, shook it slightly, and saw that the rich liquor left a faint mark on the transparent glass wall.

Pressing the glass under the nose, the fruity notes mixed with floral aromas are full of agility and vitality, and when you sip a little, the rich and full-bodied wine slowly rolls in the mouth, and the delicate tannins give the wine a unique silky experience, and the tip of the tongue seems to be gently surrounded by soft and smooth silk......

Seeing the fat general's intoxicated expression, Li Qingrui also raised his glass, could it be that this wine really doesn't need to wake up?

The rich fruit aroma is very special, Li Qinghui took a deep breath, feeling that the air is full of the fragrance of strawberries, cherries, blueberries, blackberries, and black plums......