How to quickly identify genuine and fake imported wines

All I know is that the red color vinospirit is imported from France

This is actually a big problem. All imported wines have customs inspection and quarantine in the import process, which is the health certificate, and the wine released by the customs with the health certificate is the real wine. This is only one aspect.

Another aspect is that I have seen Burgundy bottles in China with a label that says Bordeaux. This is absolutely not allowed in foreign countries, but we only test the physical and chemical indicators of wine in the import process to see if it is really made from grape juice, but we do not look at the bottle information, so even if this wine has a health certificate, it can also be identified as a fake wine.

Or the wine label says Lafite Manor, Dragon Boat Manor, in fact, it is not the real Lafite and Dragon Boat, such wine is also real wine in the testing process, but you can't treat it as Lafite and Dragon Boat, this is the edge ball.

There are many other aspects, and I will not list them all.

1. Pour the wine into the glass first, the glass is solid and transparent, and there can be no background color or pattern.

2. Add the commonly used edible alkali at home, you can wait for a few minutes to observe the easy color change of the wine.

3. If the wine is fake, then there are no anthocyanins in it, and the fake wine will not change color. If the wine is genuine, then there are anthocyanins in it, and the real wine will turn into a dark blue that is impermeable to the spike light.

4. Use a piece of paper to drop a drop of wine and observe the diffusion of the droplets. If you see that the color in the middle is very dark and the color around is obviously very light, it is a fake wine. The droplets of real wine spread out more evenly. Ant Xinbu.

Teach you how to distinguish a real red wine from a fake.

1. Look at the barcode of the wine label.

Generally speaking, if it is an imported wine in the original bottle, you can learn its information from the wine label. According to customs regulations, imported wine needs to be labeled with the original label of the imported country on the front of the bottle, and a formal Chinese back label needs to be affixed on the back.

AppearanceThe capacity of imported French wines on the label is usually shown as 75cle, instead of the 750ml commonly used in China.

BarcodeThe back of the original bottle of imported wine will be marked with a 13-digit international barcode, of which the first and third digits are the country**; The 4th 8th digit is the manufacturer**; The 9th 12th digit is the manufacturer's internal product**; The 13th digit is the check digit.

Wine seals are generally the wine seals printed with brand logos on the original bottle of imported wine wine stoppers can be rotated, because the sealing performance of the wine stoppers is good, and the wine seals only play the role of brand identification symbols, which do not need to be sealed, and can be rotated. However, some domestic fake or imitation wine are worried about the poor sealing performance of the wine stopper, so the wine is sealed together, leaving a leak.

The text on the cork will be consistent with the content on the wine label, such as the name of the winery, the production batch number, etc., but it is difficult to do the details of domestic bottled wine, and consumers need to distinguish carefully.

Description: Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from fresh grapes or grape juice that has been completely or partially fermented. There are usually three types of red wines, white wines, and rosé wines.

Red wines are generally made from red grape varieties, white wines can be made from white grape varieties, or red grape varieties with peels, and rosé wines can be made from red grape varieties, but the maceration period is shorter.

Origin: In archaeological research, it has been found in the remains of ancient people in Bulgaria, Europe, that around 3000 to 6000 BC, wine was made from grape juice, and the ancient poet Homer also mentioned the excellent winemaking techniques of the Thracians in his works Iliad and Odyssey. So there are many people who consider Bulgaria to be the birthplace of wine.

Organization: The International Organization of Vine and Wine is the leading scientific and technological organization in the field of grapes and grape-based products, created by the international agreement establishing the International Wine Organization on November 29, 1924. By decision of the member states, the International Wine Organization has used the name "International Wine Organization" since April 1958.

There is really no way to do this, and there are currently several methods that are the most reliable, one is that by the way, a friend understands this aspect.

One is to find a more credible company, the store. What else is to look at the wine label, look at the barcode, look at this and that. It's all unreliable.

Wine shopping common sense.

You should go to reputable shopping malls, supermarkets and other places to buy well-known brand wines with good quality.

Look at the signs to distinguish between a raw wine and a half-juiced wine. It is impossible and absolutely not to add ingredients such as white sugar or potassium sorbate to a wine with 100% juice content, and it should be said that nothing can be added to a whole juice wine. If white sugar is added to a whole juice wine, its alcohol content will increase; Potassium sorbate should not be added, because potassium sorbate is a preservative, it is a chemical substance, and when added to the whole wine, it will destroy the wine composition, and then affect the quality of the wine.

If a red wine is labelled as containing whole grape juice, white sugar, and potassium sorbate, it should undoubtedly be a semi-juice wine.

Look at the appearance. The appearance should be clear and transparent, shiny, and its color is consistent with the name of the wine, and the color is natural and pleasing to the eye; The aroma is balanced, harmonious and integrated, and the aroma is elegant and pleasant; On the palate it is pleasant, soft, full-bodied and has a long finish. Don't buy cloudy, dull, color does not match the name of the wine, no sense of naturalness, bright color, with obvious artificial coloring; There is a prominent and violent fruit aroma (plus flavor), a prominent alcohol flavor, and other peculiar smells; A wine with an unpleasant smell, a prominent aroma, a thin body, and no aftertaste.

Another trick to distinguish between real and fake wines is to add hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide to the wine, and the color of high-quality wine becomes darker when it is acidic, and the color returns to its original state after adding alkali. Inferior wines will not change color when added with acids and alkalis. If there is no acid or alkali in the public's home, white vinegar and edible alkali can also be used instead.

Experts suggest that when buying wine, consumers can start from two aspects:

The first is to judge from the content of the label.

1. Product name. According to the definition of the product, the name should be:"Wine"。

2. Alcohol content. The alcohol content of the wine should not be less than 7% (vv).

3. Implement standards. The wine standard in our country is GB T15037.

The second is to judge from the internal quality.

The quality of wine includes three parts: hygiene, physicochemical and sensory, among which the most comprehensive and effective indicator of wine quality is sensory index. The organoleptic indicators of wine should be reflected in the following three aspects:

1. Appearance. The appearance of the wine should be mostly clear, transparent, shiny, and its color matches the name of the wine.

2. Aroma. Wine is a fermented product, and its aroma should have the fruitiness of grapes, the aroma of fermentation, and the mellow aroma of aging, and these aromas should be balanced, harmonious, elegant and pleasant.

3. Taste. The palate of the wine should be pleasant, with a variety of delicate and soft aromas and a long finish.

If you are a French wine, you can look at the wine label.

All French wines are labelled with the grade they belong to on the label of the bottle. Because according to French law, on the bottle.

It must be labelled with truthful information about the quality of the wine, as violators will be punished severely. France** Hope Pass.

Through this set of labeling regulations, on the one hand, the quality of production is controlled, and on the other hand, consumers can distinguish the type, place and year of the wine.

portions, and even the characteristics of the wine.

Regardless of the level listed, the label must be marked with the following relevant information:

Grade: General Table Wine, Regional Table Wine, Excellent Regional Table Wine, Official Origin Wine.

Indicate the country of origin: France "France".

Capacity: This container is scheduled to hold liquid capacity, expressed in liters (l), centiliters (cl), milliliters (ml).

Alcohol content: expressed as a percentage of volume. The unit "%vol" should be indicated after the data

The easiest way to do this is to test with alkali. Real wine with alkali immediately turns blue, if it does not change color, it is still red and it is fake.

Appearance identification: In terms of color, the body of the wine is slightly reflective when exposed to strong light, and the high-quality wine is clear, transparent, without turbidity and precipitation. A good wine should have a true colour close to that of the original variety.

White wine should be slightly yellow with green or straw yellow and golden yellow, the overall is crystal clear ice white, rich in luster, where it is variegated, indicating poor quality.

Red wines should be red, purplish red or garnet red, and aged red wines should be ruby red, blood rainbow or dark red, and generally ruddy and crystal clear. Where the liquid surface is dark brown, the quality is poor.

Aroma identification: In terms of wine aroma, open and smell, high-quality wine should have a fragrant and pleasant grape fruit aroma and a thick and rich wine aroma. The fruity aroma comes from the natural aroma of the variety, which is formed during the brewing and storage process, and the longer the ageing, the more intense and persistent the aroma becomes.

Taste identification: In the mouth, dry white wine should be fresh, refreshing and pure. The dry red should be dry, mellow, long, round, and the various flavors are balanced and unified.

1. White wine.

Choose wine made from white grapes or light red skins, separated from the skin juice, and fermented from their juices, the color of this kind of wine should be approximately colorless, light yellow with green, light yellow, grass stem yellow. The color is too dark to meet the color requirements of white wine.

2. Red wine.

Wine grapes with red skin and white flesh or red flesh are selected, fermented with a mixture of skin juices, and then aged separately, which should be naturally ruby red, purple-red, garnet red, etc. The red color, which has lost its natural feel, does not meet the color requirements of red wines.

3. Rosé wine.

This wine is between red and white wines, using wine grapes with red skin and white flesh, and the skin juice is mixed and fermented for a short period of time to meet the color requirements, and then the skin residue is separated, and the fermentation continues, and the aging becomes a rosé wine. The color of this type of wine should be peach, or rosy or red.

The easiest way to identify the original imported wine is to look at the two labels, look at the bar code, and then look at the raw ingredients.

The original imported wine must have the front label and the back label, and the back label must have a Chinese logo so that it can be transported through customs. To distinguish between original imported wine and domestic wine, look at the barcode at the bottom of the back label of the bottle, and the first number at the beginning can also be identified.

The first few digits of the barcode of the wine product are different from country to country. Mainly look at the beginning of the barcode, for example, the number 3 begins with the production of France, the number 690 begins with the production of China, and the beginning of 489 is produced in Hong Kong.

The common production countries of wine start with the following barcodes: 00-13 USA Canada, 30-37 France, if you see that the beginning of the barcode is 31 then it belongs to the range of 30-37, it is produced in France, 380 Bulgaria, 400-440 Germany, 471 Taiwan, 480 Philippines, 482 Ukraine, 50 United Kingdom, 520 Greece, 54 Belgium, 560 Portugal, 57 Denmark, 600-601 South Africa, 64 Finland, 73 Sweden, 750 Mexico, 775 Peru, 779 Argentina, 780 Chile, 789 Brazil, 850 Cuba, 87 Netherlands, 888 Singapore, 90-91 Austria, 893 Vietnam (for example, if you see the kind of black three or five cigarettes in the world, it starts with this modulation, produced in Vietnam!) 899 Indonesia, 93 Australia, 955 Malaysia, 958 Macau, 80-83 Italy, 84 Spain, 880 Korea, 890 India, 70 Norway, 460-469 Russia, 94 New Zealand, and many others, not one by one, for example, vat69 whisky, is Scotch whisky, belongs to the United Kingdom, authentic should start with 50, according to different regions of the United Kingdom, it may start with 501 or 502, But you can see the 93 in the bar, which means that this wine is not of British origin, it is bottled in Australia.

You can find some imported products for the barcode, even if you can't read it in Spanish or French, you can also know that it is produced in that country.

For some original imported wines, only 100% grape juice is written on the raw ingredients, and the quality of such wines may not be passable. According to the standard, there must be sulfur dioxide, whether it is foreign or domestic, there must be sulfur dioxide, there is no easy spoilage, if it is 100% grape juice, it will deteriorate quickly in a bottle.

Look at the barcode, the first digit of the domestic product barcode is 69

Look at the barcode.

The barcode of imported wine from France starts with 30-37, the first three barcodes of domestic wine are 690-693, 00-09 represents American wine, Canadian wine, 600-601 represents South African wine, etc.