Is wine cheap or not available?
Let me say that wine within 100 yuan is considered cheap. Generally, we drink wine for mass consumption, that is, drinking wine that costs more than 100 yuan.
Friends who usually drink famous wines may not like haha, but in fact, everyone at home and abroad usually buys wine for a few euros.
These table wine wines are rich in fruit aroma, smooth in taste, easy to drink, especially suitable for casual drinking with various friends.
Many relatives and friends ask me to recommend wines for wedding banquets. I really don’t think it’s necessary to drink too expensive wines. Every time I recommend some wines that don’t exceed 80 yuan, but the feedback is very good after the wedding banquet.
There is no need for mass consumption to emphasize brand premiums and winery background stories, just drink a bottle of wine. The export price is a few euros or a few dollars, forty or fifty yuan in the warehouse, and the double price is still less than one hundred yuan.
As long as you know how to pick, you will find many good options within 100.
Does wine get better with age?
Here is the reason for wine aging. This principle also refers to the analogy between wine and women: some women become more and more charming as they grow older; some are not necessarily so.
Please be sure to clearly realize that not all wines can be aged! Only some wines with outstanding quality and aging potential are eligible to talk about aging.
In fact, most wines are used for daily drinking. The recommended time to enjoy this kind of wine is: the earlier the fresher it is! To give an inappropriate analogy, when we buy juice, we don’t buy old juice, right? The fresher the better.
A relative of mine bought two bottles of Southern French table wine for 99 yuan, and asked me seriously: Will this wine appreciate in value after five years? How much will it be worth in 10 years? (I can only tell him resolutely: it won’t rise for a dime, drink it up quickly!)
Don’t expect that the wine you bought for tens of dollars will taste better than the original wine worth hundreds of dollars after ten years… If you insist on keeping it, it will only become vinegar.
Do you have to sober up when you drink wine?
Regarding whether to sober up, even the masters of wine hold their own opinions, and professional wineries also have different opinions. When I went out to play, I met a winery that asked me to drink overnight and woke up overnight, and I also met a winery that I drank as soon as it opened.
There are two main purposes of decanting, one is to remove the sediment in the wine, and the other is to allow the wine to fully contact with the air, so that its own floral, fruity and more subtle flavors can develop.
Now most of the wines have undergone strict gum filtration before bottling, and the obtained wines are very clean and bright, without the precipitation problem that people worried about in the past.
However, some wines are at the peak drinking period, and the fruity and floral aromas are already present when the bottle is opened. It is a big deal to drink slowly to feel its changes, and there is no need to sober up.
So not all wines need to be sobered up. For example, there is no need to sober up the easy-to-drink table wines sold on the market for tens of dollars…
Do you have to buy branded wines when you buy wine?
I have to relate this to the “clothes-buying concept” instilled in me by my female friends.
Brands such as “ZARA” and “MUJI” have a large variety and a large number, but friends who often go shopping will know that the quality of these brands is only satisfactory, and it is not amazing.
So if we are not talking about this type of brand, what about famous brands such as “CHANEL” and “VERSACE”? Of course, the quality is super good and the style is super new, but the wallet is a bit painful if you buy it often.
Then there are some buyers’ collection stores that don’t talk about brands, but have very good design and quality. The clothes inside are both stylish and cost-effective, and they are the favorite choices of many fairies.
The same is true when it comes to buying wine:
Large groups may be very famous, but their quality may not be as good as most boutique wineries; famous wineries are of very good quality, but their prices may not be affordable; as long as you know how to choose, some small wineries are very cost-effective.
In fact, the brand is not as important as you think, but the wine inside.
Home-brewed wine is cleaner and better than bought outside?
I agree that home-cooked meals are much cleaner and more delicious than those cooked in many small restaurants outside, but the same principle is definitely not the same when it comes to wine making.
Brewing your own wine is a hassle!
1. It is difficult to buy grapes with suitable acidity, sugar and phenolic substances. Table grapes bought in supermarkets are not suitable for wine making!
2. It is difficult for you to control the temperature/pH/fermentation by-products, so the process of self-brewing is uncontrollable.
3. It is difficult for you to control the sanitary conditions in the production process, and it is easy to produce some harmful aldehydes.
4. The most important thing is where do you have the confidence to feel that the wine you brew is better than that produced by experienced and theoretical winemakers…
Even if you solve all the above problems, calculate the cost of brewing a bottle of wine by yourself, and find that it is nearly 100 yuan. If you are willing to spend more money to have wine brewing farmhouse fun at home, then you are happy…
Everyone insists on buying wine from the supermarket, but the sugar content is insufficient, and the fermentation may stop early. Most of the aunts will add additional sugar, even if the fermentation is over, there will still be a lot of residual sugar. But friend, what’s the point of drinking sugar solution?
To sum up, self-brewing wine is a troublesome, expensive and unpleasant thing to do. Two words, don’t do it!
The thicker the wine glass, the better the wine?
The hanging glass of wine is called “wine leg”. The substances that form the wine leg are mainly alcohol, glycerin, residual sugar and dry extract.
These do not affect the aroma and flavor of the wine, which may indicate that the wine has more residual sugar or higher alcohol content, but there is no necessary relationship with the quality of the wine.
The general concept is that the thicker the hanging glass of red wine, the stronger the taste of the wine.
If you are a heavy-tasting wine lover, you will think that the wine with thicker legs will be fuller and richer; if you are a light-tasting wine lover, you will think that the wine with less wine legs will be more refreshing.
No matter how the taste is, all elements should be balanced. Whether the hanging cup is thick or not has nothing to do with the quality.
Only after the barrel is a good wine?
When the word “oak barrel” is spoken, the breath of RMB and US dollars seems to flow between the lips and teeth! But it is really not necessary for all wine to be barreled!
For example, in order to highlight the purity of the taste, some fine New Zealand wines, as well as silly white sweet Asti, do not use barrels, and Riesling and Burgundy Pinot Noir do not emphasize the flavor of barrels.
In addition, oak barrels also have high and low points: new barrels or old barrels? French Barrel or American Barrel? Three months or two years? This all determines whether the wine is good after the barrel.
In fact, the important thing is not the three words of oak barrel, but whether it is necessary to store the wine in oak barrel. Using an extreme example to illustrate, can boiled water be poured into oak barrels to make it high-grade? That’s not just a bucket of water.
The deeper the bottom of the wine bottle, the better the wine?
The concave bottom bottle has several functions. One is to facilitate storage and transportation, the other is to facilitate precipitation, and the third is to look more handsome when pouring wine.
Normally, a deep bottle bottom implies that this bottle of wine can be aged, and the concave bottom is used to precipitate various macromolecular sediments, which is convenient for handling when pouring wine.
It can be said that most of the good wines that can be aged generally have a relatively deep bottle bottom.
but! A bottle with a deep bottom is not necessarily a good wine. In this intricate process of wine culture dissemination, people spread rumors and believed that a deep bottle bottom equals good wine, so some people specially made the bottom of the bottle deep to cater to consumers.
In addition, the technology of wine bottle making and filtration has been improved, and many new worlds have even started to use flat-bottomed wine bottles, and there are many good wines in these wines.
White wine is not up to the grade?
Perhaps because the first glass of wine that most Chinese consumers drink is red wine, this has led to the embarrassing and neglected status of white wine in the Chinese market.
In addition, white wine emphasizes acidity and skeleton, but generally Chinese middle-aged and above consumers do not like acidity. This is the same reason that champagne consumption in China has been sluggish, because the acidity is too high.
If, as an objective drinker, you feel that white wine is not up-to-date, I guess there are two reasons. One is that you really rarely drink white wine; the other is that you have never drunk good white wine.
In fact, there are many wine-producing countries in the world that produce very high-quality white wine. For example, Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand, sweet white wine from Bordeaux, France, Chardonnay from Burgundy, Riesling, the queen of white grapes from Germany, and so on.
Among them, the TBA of German wine king Egon Muller only produces two to three hundred bottles a year, and the auction price is nearly ten thousand US dollars. It can be exchanged for a few bottles of 82-year-old Lafite. Is it high-end? Burgundy’s Grand Crus rank in the top ten, and there are also white wines.
Are all sparkling wines called “champagne”?
Here again:
Only in the legal Champagne producing area of France, using the local legal variety, the sparkling wine brewed by the traditional Champagne brewing method can be called – Champagne!
No other sparkling wine can steal the name. For example, Italy’s particularly delicious Asti sparkling wine cannot be called champagne; the strange carbon dioxide grape juice in China cannot be called champagne; sparkling drinks mixed with Sprite and grape juice cannot be called champagne…
Every time I attend a wedding banquet, when I hear the host ask the couple to pour wine, they always say: The couple pours champagne, champagne and champagne, respect each other as guests. I always check to see if it’s real champagne at the end of the banquet, and it turns out, more than 90% of the time it isn’t.
I think people from the Champagne Association want to reward me for explaining to everyone what champagne really is every time.
Champagne does have a special charm, but when you first start drinking sparkling wine, if you like simple, easy-to-drink and sweeter flavors, it is recommended to buy Italian Prosecco and Moscato d’Asti, etc., which are cheap and delicious, and will coax young girls Boys are the best.