I want to know about foreign wine

More than 90% of foreign wine in the Chinese market is fake, and I remember a manager of one of the largest foreign wine companies in Shanghai once told me that there is no authentic royal salute in the Chinese market.

It is recommended to go to a bar to work as a bartender assistant or something, and it will take a while to figure it out.

Fake liquor accounts for 60%-80% of the bars

Foreign liquor mainly refers to liquor imported from abroad.

There are many types of liquor, including spirits, wines, beers and liqueurs. But when most people talk about foreign liquor, they usually mean spirits such as whiskey, brandy, tequila, and vodka.

Foreign liquor refers to the general term of imported liquor, which includes spirits, beer, wine, liqueur, etc., and different alcohol contents. According to the raw materials used to make them, they can be divided into whisky, brandy and rum.

In terms of brewing process, the saccharification path of foreign liquor is mainly through soaking barley malt and then using the amylase in the barley malt itself for saccharification.

Classification of foreign wines

There are tens of thousands of different types of sake around the world, and the raw materials used in sake brewing and the alcohol content of sake vary greatly, so people use different methods to classify them in order to make them easier to understand and remember. If the wine is classified according to the raw materials of production, it can be roughly divided into seven categories: grain wine, spiced herbal wine, fruit wine, milk egg wine, vegetable slurry wine, mead wine and mixed wine.

If the wine is divided according to the drinking time, there are different aperitifs, accompaniment wines, after-dinner wines and special drinks; If it is classified according to the difference in alcohol content, there are low-alcohol wines, medium-alcohol wines, and high-alcohol wines.

In addition, there are gins and vodkas made from high-purity alcohol, which are medicinal juniper berries and edible alcohol that are steamed or cold. Vodka can be divided into two main categories: pure alcohol vodka (neutral alcohol) and flavored vodka.

Other examples of foreign distilled spirits include shochu, awamori, and tequila produced in Japan. The process of shochu is the same as that of edible alcohol, and the process of awamori sake is similar to that of Chinese koji, that is, semi-solid fermentation and aging in vats. Tequila, on the other hand, is fermented and distilled from agave endemic to Mexico, a unique source of these three distilled spirits produced in a few countries and not universal.

Methods and steps for tasting foreign sake:

1. Smell the aroma, first take out the cork to taste, by smelling the taste of the cork to understand whether the bottle of wine has a peculiar smell, or the fragrant fruit aroma and rich aroma, so as to compare the quality of the wine, if there is no problem, you can let the sommelier continue to pour the wine;

2. Color, this process requires guests to observe the color of the outer edge of the wine under natural light, if it is a mature wine, then the wine edge is brown, if you are an unripe wine, it is mostly purple-red, once you see the brick red, then the bottle of wine is over-oxidized;

3. Shake the cup, here you need to observe two points, one is to smell the aroma of the wine, the second is to understand the situation of the wine tears, although the wine that can be hung is not necessarily a good wine, but a good wine must be in good condition;

4. Taste tasting, take a small sip of wine, and then swirl between the tongues, during which a certain space is inserted next to the pat to allow the wine in the mouth to oxidize, in this process, the young wine tannins are new and astringent, but will become soft with time. Kamiga or.

When drinking foreign wine, you can mix soda, iced tea, green tea, orange juice, lime pulse, Red Bull, 7-up, Sprite and so on. If you are not accustomed to drinking pure foreign wine, you can add carbonated drinks, which can make the wine better volatile aroma, and what drinks to mix can be selected according to your own taste.

There are different things to be particular about drinking, and there are different things to be paid to drinking on different occasions and at different times. Next, I will explain to you in detail how to drink foreign wine.

01 Types of sake.

Liquor can be divided into six categories: brandy, whiskey, tequila, vodka, rum and gin.

02 Sprite.

If you think the purity of the sake is too high, we can add Sprite to the liquor, probably in the same proportion.

03 Iced tea.

A very common way to drink in bars is to mix foreign wine with iced black tea, so that the wine has both the taste of foreign wine and the taste of tea.

04 Mix with orange juice.

There are also some people who choose to add an appropriate amount of orange to the sake so that the color of the sake will be beautiful and delicious.

05 Lime pulsation.

If you are a young person, you can add an appropriate amount of lime pulsation to the sake when we drink it, and this way of drinking it is also very refreshing.