Ingredients
Red wine can be categorized into dry red, semi-dry red, semi-sweet red wine, and sweet wine according to different sugar contents. It is very easy to distinguish between semi-sweet red wine and full-sweet red wine. Consumers just need to pay attention to the ingredient list indicated on the product when purchasing, and it is not difficult to find out that the ingredients of full-sweet red wine are 100% grapes or grape juice, while the ingredients of half-sweet red wine are also labeled with other food additives. In addition, half-juice red wine in the taste and full juice red wine has a significant difference: one is the sweetness of heavier, viscous; Second, with a strong alcohol flavor. As for the two in the nutritional differences, mainly for the former contains a rich source of grape fruit of a variety of nutrients; the latter not only does not contain or less of these nutrients, food additives will also have an unknown impact on human health. Sweet red wine taste sweet, for many consumers love, but the health value is not great.
Price
The price of different red wines varies greatly, with the cheapest ones costing less than $10 and the most expensive ones costing thousands of dollars. According to some data analysis in the industry, the ex-factory price of a bottle of wine is at least 20~25 yuan before a company can make a profit. Therefore, consumers are advised not to be too greedy for cheap prices when shopping. For consumers who do not have a specialized preference, choosing red wine priced around 30~50 yuan is more cost-effective.
Packaging
Red wine is a cultural symbol, and these cultures are most intuitively reflected in the packaging. Formal manufacturers of wine bottles on the front and back of the label design style, orientation is also consistent. The miscellaneous products are mostly manually labeled manually, the appearance will be skewed, bulging bubble phenomenon. In addition, from the bottle itself can also be seen: the color of a good bottle is dark brown, dark green, the bottle is clean, the bottom of the bottle concave deeper. Formal manufacturers in the rubber cap surface will print the name of the enterprise or brand logo, miscellaneous products may choose to general-purpose and no special logo.
Year
Red wine is alive, it is neither as we usually think, the older the better, nor the fresher the better. In recent years, the red wine industry has taken advantage of people's "wine is the fragrance of alcohol" this simple understanding, developed a lot of vintage wine, concept wine. However, consumers still need to have some discernment when choosing. First of all, a good vintage often indicates that the quality of wine grapes in that year is very good, and some producing regions or enterprises will also use the "star" method to indicate the advantages and disadvantages of a certain vintage; secondly, the vintage of red wine "long time ago" does not necessarily mean that it is of good quality. The quality of red wine also depends on the quality of the vintage wine grapes; furthermore, the implementation of the new national standard for wine in 2008, the vintage wine to make more detailed provisions, such as a wine product labeled year "1996", then the bottle of wine requires at least 75% of the wine grapes belonging to the vintage year of raw materials; Finally, as the wine vintage is very difficult to be recognized, the vintage of the wine is not necessarily a good quality, but the quality of the wine grapes. Finally, since the vintage of wine is difficult to detect with scientific instruments and impossible to realize by human tasting, it is recommended that consumers choose the vintage of those responsible brand-name companies.
Wine tasting
There are five basic steps in wine tasting: color, shaking, smelling, tasting, and aftertaste.
(i) Color. To see the color of a wine, it is best to have a white background and place the glass in front of it. Of course the range of colors depends on whether you are tasting a white wine (hereafter referred to as white wine) or a red wine. Here are the colors of the two wines: white wines are pale yellow-green, straw yellow, golden, gold, dark gold, Madeira, and brown; red wines are purple, ruby, medicine brick red, reddish brown, and brown. The color will tell you a lot about the wine; white wines, for example, will deepen in color as they age, and red wines, conversely, will lose their color.
(ii) Shaking. Why shake the wine? To get oxygen into the wine. I'm not sure if you're accurate yet, but I can tell you very directly: shaking causes esters, ethers and acetaldehyde to be released and, along with oxygen, gives the wine its aroma.
(iii) Smell the wine. Now that you have shaken to release the aromas, what does the wine smell like? It has that form of NOSE, "NOSE" for wine tasters usually use the word cause to describe the combined odor of the wine. Pinpointing the NOSE of a wine has the subsequent meaning of allowing you to recognize certain characteristics of the wine.
(d) Tasting. For most people, wine tasting means taking a sip of wine and swallowing it quickly. But that's not called wine tasting. Wine tasting is something you do with your taste buds. Remember that they are all around your mouth; the sides of your tongue, the back of your tongue, the tip of your tongue, and down to the base of your throat. If you're drinking wine like most people, you're ignoring the all-important taste buds.