Know something about red wine. Red wine is a kind of red wine. It is brewed from fresh grapes. Red wine can stimulate appetite, help digestion and nourish the body, so it is a rare good product. If you are interested, let's take a look and learn about wine knowledge and related information.
Know something about red wine 1 1, not all grapes can make red wine.
The common grapes in fruit stalls are used for raw food, so we can't make wine, because these grapes are big, high in water content, rich in fiber and low in sugar, so we can't make good wine with them. Wine grapes are just the opposite, as long as they have small particles, thick skins and many seeds.
2, red wine tannins taste
Wine has a astringent feeling in the mouth, which is the taste of tannin. It is the skeleton of wine, the natural preservative of wine, the treasure to eliminate the scourge of "active oxygen" in our body, and it is also necessary for wine aging. It comes from grape skins and stems and oak barrels.
3. Red wine will be sour
Almost all wines have acid, which is an important component of wine. There are good and bad acids. Good acid tastes pleasant, while sharp acid is bad acid. For example, eating apples before they are ripe is very raw and sharp, which is bad acid.
4. Red wine color
The color of wine should be natural, and we can distinguish white wine from red wine by color. The color of white wine is usually pale white and light yellow, which deepens with aging. The color of red wine is usually purple and cherry red, and the aged wine will have ruby red, whose color is that the ingredients in the grape skin naturally fall off into the wine during fermentation, not artificially added pigment.
5, red wine fragrance
It mainly comes from grape varieties and the soil in the planting area. Aromas are generally classified. The first category is fruit aroma, such as the aroma of mulberry, cherry, lemon, various flowers, etc., and the aroma brought in the brewing process, such as vanilla, smoke, coffee, chocolate and so on from oak barrels.
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Wrong drinking of red wine
1, a stuffy. Drinking too fast can easily increase the concentration of ethanol in the blood, accelerate blood flow and vasodilation, and harm the whole body health. Drink it slowly, and your body will have enough time to decompose the ethanol.
2, love to drink. "Drink less, but better" is a proverb for drinking red wine. However, many people shake a small handleless wine cup, cup by cup. Studies have shown that drinking more than four glasses of red wine a day will increase the risk of heart disease. Excessive drinking can also lead to alcoholic hepatitis and fatty liver.
3. It's too full. It is the drinking habit of Chinese people to fill the wine and then drink it dry. However, if red wine is poured too full, it will reduce its contact with the air, which is not conducive to the volatilization of wine aroma. It is recommended to pour 1/3 cups.
4. Mix drinks. Adding carbonated drinks to red wine will accelerate the absorption of alcohol by blood and easily stimulate the stomach and brain. Adding ice cubes to red wine will cause discomfort to people with stomach cold and spleen deficiency.
Learn about red wine 2 1 How to taste natural dry red wine
Red wine is the soul of wine, which is ethereal within life and makes the soul blend; She is alive, from the gift of heaven and earth, the luster of the sun and the moon; She is like a virgin in a soft veil, delicate and fresh, with appropriate shades.
When tasting red wine, you should use your heart. Wine is not expensive, but suitable; Drinking is not much, but tasting. "Expensive" wine may not be "delicious" for you. There is no progress in "drinking more" and "not asking for a solution". We should not only taste wine with "taste buds", but also use our brains to analyze and record our feelings.
"Wine body" is an important content of dry red wine. The so-called "body of wine" means that when you drink, you can feel the "sense of weight" brought to you by substances other than alcohol and sugar. This feeling makes you feel that the wine in your mouth is "full". The "wine body" has a plump and heavy type and a moderate shade type.
There are also fragrant and refreshing types. Usually, the full-bodied alcohol content exceeds 13%. The alcohol content of moderate-intensity wine is between 12%-13%, while the wine below12% belongs to the light and refreshing type.
Secondly, there is the question of "taste". Some people like wine with "enough strength" in the throat, while others like wine with "smooth" throat. Good wine has pure taste, balanced sweetness and acidity, orderly taste and faint fruity aroma. Wine is aged in oak barrels for a long time.
Oak barrel will provide moderate oxidation to wine, soften tannins and ketones, make the structure of wine stable and natural, and blend the fragrance of barrel into wine, so that wine is endowed with the fragrance of cream, vanilla, toast, roasted almonds and so on.
Of course, dry red wine is mellow, charming, ruby-colored, fragrant, swaying, and fragrant.
2, the storage method of wine
If you put a bottle of red wine in a sunny place, maybe it will be reimbursed in a day or two or even less.
Red wine is more afraid of heat than cold, and it should be at 13? C at constant temperature, too hot will make the wine mature prematurely.
Shock is very harmful to wine, which disturbs the molecular structure of wine and affects its fragrance. Therefore, it is best to let the wine you just bought have a rest.
In addition to being dark and cold, the place where wine is stored should also be ventilated, and the room should be kept free of peculiar smell to prevent the smell from soaking into the wine.
The wine must be laid flat to ensure that the bottle stopper is always wet, and it will not dry up and shrink to let air in.
3. How to choose dry red wine
First of all, it depends on whether the wine produced by the vineyard.
Secondly, it depends on whether the manufacturers are well-known, because there are many brands of red wine now, many of which do not have their own brewing bases, but are filled or blended.
Pay attention to the vintage of the wine. Only a good vintage can produce good grapes.
When buying wine, you should pay attention to the height of the wine in the bottle. The wine within 10 years should reach the height of "neck bend". If the "water level" of the wine is too low, it may indicate poor storage.
4. The health function value of wine.
As long as you don't drink too much, medicine has proved that wine is good for your health. Drinking red wine can produce a yeast called PST-P, which can prevent migraine, but what is important is that it can promote more HDL in the blood and lower cholesterol. Moreover, both red wine and white wine are beneficial to the digestion of the stomach.
Simple drinking knowledge can make you indulge in the mellow world of wine.
Drinking temperature
White wine should be refrigerated at about 7℃- 10℃ first (it can be placed in the refrigerator 1-2 hours) and can be drunk after opening the bottle.
Red wine, when drunk at room temperature 15℃- 18℃, can reflect its best flavor. If you can open the cork half an hour before drinking and let the wine contact with the air, the fragrance will be more fragrant and lasting.
wineglass
The most basic equipment for tasting wine is a goblet, which can be used to identify the color of the wine and avoid the hand temperature from being transmitted to the wine, and it is also convenient to shake the goblet to sober up, so that the wine can emit aroma and show the characteristics of the wine.
Preservation mode
Winter: Store in a dark and ventilated place.
Summer: It can be wrapped in newspaper and put in the bottom of refrigerator.
Learn about red wine 3 1, sober up. It is different from beer and white wine that we often drink. Red wine must sober up. What we mean by sobering up is to pour red wine into a big container (we call it a sobering up device) and let the red wine fully contact with the air, so as to remove the acidity in the red wine in this way.
2. Pour the wine. Pour the red wine gently, not too hard. Due to the long storage time, there will be some precipitation. So don't pour the sediment into the cup when pouring wine.
3. Wine glasses. Red wine must choose a red wine glass. Never use white wine glasses or anything like that. On the one hand, it is taste, and the most important thing is that drinking red wine at the right temperature tastes the best. Usually the temperature is around 20 degrees, so the use of red wine glasses can avoid the influence of hand temperature on red wine.
4. wine tasting. A glass of red wine can't be gulped down in one gulp, nor can it be sipped like white wine. First, shake the glass, take another sip in your mouth, fully swirl it with your tongue, slowly taste the aroma of the wine, and then swallow it.